March 7, 2026

Understanding the Geopolitical Landscape: Matthew Ehret on Canada and Greenland

Understanding the Geopolitical Landscape: Matthew Ehret on Canada and Greenland
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Matthew Ehret's return to the podcast provides a profound exploration of Greenland's strategic significance amidst shifting global power dynamics. He posits that we are witnessing a departure from the prevailing 'end of history' doctrine that characterized the post-Cold War era, suggesting a paradigm shift in which historical identities and civilizations are no longer easily dismissed by geopolitical elites. This changing landscape presents an opportunity for Greenland to assert its importance on the world stage, particularly as its vast natural resources become increasingly coveted amid global competition for rare earth minerals and energy sources.

Takeaways:

  1. Matthew Ehret discusses the geopolitical significance of Greenland amidst shifting global power dynamics.
  2. The podcast explores how Greenland's resources have been neglected due to historical policies imposed by Denmark.
  3. Ehret emphasizes the urgent need for Arctic development to improve the living standards of the Greenlandic people.
  4. The conversation highlights the strategic importance of Greenland in the context of US-China relations and Arctic geopolitics.
  5. Ehret warns against militarization in the Arctic, advocating for cooperation rather than conflict with Russia and China.
  6. The episode illustrates the dire socio-economic conditions faced by Indigenous populations in Greenland and Canada.

Show notes with links to articles, blog posts, products and services:

  1. Episode 73 of The Secular Foxhole: Interview with Matthew Ehret (September 12, 2023)
  2. Trump’s Arctic Ambitions Accelerate with Canada and Greenland in Crosshairs - The Canadian Patriot
  3. Matt Ehret's Insights on Substack
  4. The Rising Tide Foundation

Episode 108 (45 minutes) was recorded at 1900 Central European Time, on March 2,, 2026, with Alitu's recording feature. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Captivate Assistant.

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00:00 - Untitled

00:08 - Introduction to Matthew Ehret

02:58 - The North American Union and Its Historical Context

15:03 - The Militarization of Greenland and Global Tensions

19:31 - The Polar Silk Road and Global Dynamics

28:26 - The Geopolitical Landscape of Iran

30:30 - The Complex Relationship Between Alberta and Quebec

39:44 - The Impact of Eugenics Policies on Indigenous Populations

41:51 - Cultural Perspectives on Development

Matthew

Foreign.

Blair

Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to another episode of the Secular Foxhole podcast. Today we're real thrilled to have a friend from the north, Canadian Matthew Arid is here today discuss Trump the Arctic and Greenland.And Matthew, if I may, is Editor in Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review. He's also a Senior fellow of the American University in Moscow and Director of the Rising Tide Foundation.He's written a four volume Untold History of Canada series and a four volume Clash of the Two Americas series

Matthew

along

Blair

with Revenge of the Mystery Cult trilogy and Science Unshackled, Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos. I have most of these by the way, Matthew, but I've only tracked the first American book, so.Okay, but the reason I have you on again this, let's just start off with why Greenland and why now?

Matthew

Well, I, I, I think we are experiencing a major realignment of world power systems currently underway.What that's going to look like is underdetermined, but I think that the, the entire idea of an end of history concept of what the New World Order was going to be when it was announced in an official term and by, you know, the followers of Francis Fukuyama in 1992 with the collapse of the Soviet Union, that model is being put on the back burner for now.I think there's become a, an increased consensus amongst the governing elite that that is not possible, that many of the civilizational forces of the world are not playing the game.They didn't want to go along with that idea of just getting rid, of erasing, resetting your entire civilizations, erasing your thousands of years of history in order to have some sort of a mass human sacrifice on some New World Order altar. And, and so something different has to be brought, brought online.And I, I think part of this realignment involves an attempt to carve out or at least restore an idea that we'd last seen floated in 2006 in the build up to the first economic crisis launched by Bear or triggered by Bear Stearns.And you know, that, that quickly spread to AIG in the broader, you know, subprime bubble that could have been, it could have been the trigger to blow out the transatlantic system. It wasn't. They said do a patchwork thing, make the bubble bigger, you know, kick the can down the lane a little bit.But the inevitable collapse was not dealt with systemically. It was still baked into the system. And what I was referring to in 2006 was the North American Union.And the North American Union itself wasn't a new idea. It was something that was sort of rehashed from an earlier idea of the North American Technate that had been. I don't know if you.Have you guys seen the North American technate maps?

Blair

I don't even know what technate means. So go ahead and explain that.

Matthew

It was a program put forth by technocracy incorporated in 1933 set up by Howard Scott of a new school a Fabian Society branch in America around new school. John Dewey had set this thing up. Howard Scott was the figurehead who had. Who had launched this new party formerly is known as the.The Technical Alliance. And the idea of this new movement which had about 500,000 people members in California. It had a big big following in Canada.A lot in New York too was that the.The elected class and the capitalist class were no longer competent to play a role in world affairs and that we needed a new engineering class of specialists to manage world systems and, and that I you know that they. They were becoming popular because it was the Great Depression.People got to see the outcome of incompetent capitalism and incompetent, you know, corrupt politicians that were making their lives worse. So people were very disenchanted.Not dis, not totally different from the psychology of many people today seeing the world, you know, lit on fire with. With a lot of thanks to. To many incompetent political and. And members of the business community. But all that to say it was a.The solution was probably worse than the problem because their idea was to say okay, let's get rid of national borders. We'll have this new jurisdictional, this centralized technique which would involve Greenland, Canada, the usa, Mexico, much of.Or all of Central America down down to a little bit below the Darien Gap. Venezuela, Cuba be part of this new new command structure. The.The head of this movement in Canada was Joshua Haldeman who was the grandfather of Elon Musk. Elon Musk has made several mentions of the importance of the Techn idea that, that he has wanted to revive.To be a member by the way of Tech of the Technocracy Incorporated. You had to give up your name and replace it with a bunch of numbers in x. So like 334 2x 21 2.That was what everybody's name was in this, this weird game. But you know, World War II happened. Joshua Haldeman got arrested because he was pushing fascism.It was the wrong side of the war to be on at that time in Canada. So he got arrested. They had to shut down Technocracy Inc. In Canada. He kept on doing it in different ways.But I think some of what was revived in the North American Union idea and then.And then put on the back burner in 2006 with a, with an Amaro, you know, they even floated a prototype of what this new singular currency was going to be. Has a lot to do with the technate idea earlier.And I think that when I look at the players who were putting this on the table, Bill Blair, who's a privy counselor in Canada, as well as other. There's, there's, there's a big long list of people who are privy counselors.They're very much tied to the same agency that gave rise to Justin Trudeau as well as Mark Carney.And there is a military component to this as well, which involves positioning the new system around this idea of blocks that would fight each other the way Orwell described in his 1984. So, you know, you know, in 1984, you have a configuration of the world into an East Asia, Eurasia and Oceania sort of power block.

Blair

Okay. I was gonna.One of my questions later on would have been there's the term spheres of influence seems to be popping up again like Asia, the Americas and then Europe, that kind of split, if you will. I don't know if that. How accurate that is, but I think I've, I've heard that more than once lately as far as that term spheres of influence.But, but I know that Greenland is rich in rare rare earth minerals. And their populace, I think the way you've described it, they're basically treated as welfare recipients by Denmark.And that this opportunity, I guess if you want to call it that, from the United States would be an economic boon to everyone there. And there's only what, 60,000 people there does that. And of course it would. The.I don't, I don't want to call it militarization of Greenland, but I guess I'm not a larger presence of the United States. We already have a footprint there.

Matthew

But from the standpoint of like practical real politic as they, as they say, yeah, it makes perfectly good sense. Greenland has been highly abused. I'm, I'm very sympathetic with, with people who would like to do something with Greenland.The Greenland people have been, as you pointed out, forced into stagnation by design by Copenhagen, which has imposed a zero, a zero growth model onto the people of Greenland, much like they've done to the, the Inuits and natives of Canada as well, by design. Basically rewarding destroying any, any discussions that have emerged over the decades that pertain to real economic.In Industrial opportunities that, that have been sabotaged and instead like you you've alluded to, they've been kept as welfare recipients.They've been told we'll give you some money as long as you don't, you don't do economic progress, you don't try to change your living standard, you don't try to expect more for your kids. Just be what you are and you've always been and, and docile and complacent.We will reward you with some money but creates a, a, a annihilism like the, the suicide rate is outstanding, outstanding in a bad way. I think it's like eighty per hundred thousand. As far as the suicide rates in Greenland, similar numbers in Canada, it's the highest of the world.Alcoholism, domestic abuse, things like that are just absurdly bad for so called first world countries. And like you pointed out, they have so much opportunity, there's so much potential.As far as some of the biggest rare earth deposits, natural gas deposits, three fifths of Greenland is under ice and we can only imagine how much has been uncharted but is certainly there as far as all sorts of useful industrial minerals and energy resources are all over on top of the fact that and if the US were to actually develop that that would improve people's living standards quite a bit if it's done for the wrong reasons.And this is my problem with the whole Technocracy Inc. Thing this is where it's a bit bittersweet and a lot of it is bitter for me because as you pointed out too there is a military contour to the conversation that pertains to expanding US military systems in the Arctic around what's known as the Golden Dome which was quoted by Trump in his first few moments of his second term. First he called it the Iron Dome which was modeled the Israeli Iron Dome in the Middle East.But then you know, bad, bad optics so they rebranded it Golden Dome. Mark Carney has said he's for it.Um, it would involve built adding to the Pitufic, the formerly known as the Thule US military base in the, in the north. Just you know as, as north as you can go in Greenland. That would be added to.It's a space force base with to a much broader anti ballistic and space based weaponized missile system which can now be brought in line. Since the start, the START treaty has been permitted to go fallow. It's been yeah, it's over.So there's no more, you know, nuclear weapons regulatory agreements anymore. So the idea that we're a step closer to weaponizing space, which again, what I think be a very bad idea.Especially if the targets for this new infrastructure that would be transgenerational and would get very bad are nations that would otherwise like to work with us as friends and allies like Russia, China, other countries of Eurasia, which we're currently using as our enemy image to justify this militaristic expansion. That's a dangerous game.And I don't know, maybe Trump wouldn't, wouldn't use it to go to war with Russia, but I don't know about the next person who is going to have power after Trump, you know, and once you build this, you can't put that genie back in the bottle.Especially with AI governing systems managing the military, which is what they're also bringing online as of this week with some alt minute OpenAI basically saying we're going to stop. We were acting like there was going to be some moral guardrails on AI's use to manage military systems.But actually we're not going to really worry about that. We'll just have faith that we'll just integrate military into AI management.

Blair

That's toxic.

Martin

Particularly frightening could it be then like what's an old classic movie? What was it? The war games. And also the idea Ronald Reagan with Star Wars, Star Wars Defense and the shield there.

Matthew

Yeah, it's not, it's not that different.And, but you know, I'm not against, I kind of liked, I'm sympathetic to Reagan's idea of the Strategic Defense Initiative that was floated in 83 or 82. I used to, I used to work with the LaRouche, Lyndon LaRouche back in many years ago.I used to, I used to volunteer and I learned a lot about the history of what was going on behind the scenes that led up to the Reagan's announcement.And originally I wrote an article on this too to sort of share my, my, my thoughts on this a few years ago was that he originally called for this idea to have a joint Russian US controlled system of anti ballistic missile lasers on the earth and in space that would deactivate the launch of any nuclear warhead anywhere on the world.And in his original iteration, it was supposed to be the US and the Russians working together to get rid of the Mutual Assured Destruction doctrine of basically having everybody build up as many nuclear warheads and point them at each other as humanly possible in order to, I don't know, control tension. It's like three of us having like knives at each other's throats at all time and calling that peace, it's like, yeah, but if anybody, you're dead.So I like that idea, which seemed to be much more founded upon a positive idea of co discovering new principles, applying them for defensive purposes, that everybody would have a seat at the table. That's a bit different from what we've seen revived now with the Golden Dome idea, which purely seems offensive.It doesn't seem to have a defensive drive to it really. It's just the hegemonic power of first strike capabilities to destroy their enemies.And the real enemies that we should be looking at, which involve the international financier class that's centered in the city of London, but also is more broadly expressed in a variety of these old European institutions in Italy and other things. We're not really talking about that like it's, it's our antagonistic conversation.The language is all being directed towards this power conflict between the US versus Russia and China, especially China, mostly China. And that's, that's troubling that that language is being so, so now Iran, you know, of course Iran is under attack. The war has begun.They've done counterattacks. I, I, I, U.S. soldiers are beginning to die. Iranian children have been wiped out.In a school, you know, tons, a variety of leaders on top of the Ayatollah have been killed by these, these strikes. So I mean, how, how is that going to unfold in the context of a new militarized Golden Dome strategy? And I don't know, it's,

Blair

there's a hundred questions follow along about that particular exercise as well. But the Arctic obviously is a very cold and barren place.But I know that for decades and decades people have been there doing research, doing, you know, studying ice and studying polar bears and studying whatever. Is the sky or the atmosphere

Martin

a nice phenomena? But you see in the sky.

Matthew

Oh yeah. The aurora. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Cosmic rays. Yeah, yeah.

Blair

The but, and I know that you've touched on this many times. I think it's called, I'm not sure what it's, I think it's the new Silk Road or something to that effect where China is trying to a pooler. Yeah.Do a road, if you will, all the way up through there. And Canada, I think is in favor of that.But what are you, what are your thoughts on those kinds of things that the American people are completely, almost completely blind to?

Matthew

Well, yeah, I mean, so far Carney is not in favor of that. He's actually said that, no, his policy will be a zero economic policy for the high Arctic.He, China is still considered a strategic threat to Canada. Even though there's this weird effort to try to court China currently by Carney on the one hand.So there's a language to try to make China feel like Canada is, is, is wants to be their ally part it's, I think the Chinese know that that's mostly dishonest because the idea of Canada as a branch of the British Empire, it's not a real country. It's never been. It's, it's designed to try to weaken and infiltrate what China has been building up.And you know, China woke up to this back in 2017 when they, when they basically put out a signal to Canada saying when they, you know, Justin Trudeau arrived in Beijing, got off the plane, nobody was there to visit him.He thought he was going there to sign to finalize the Canada China Free Trade Agreement which was like a decades long thing being negotiated and he was basically put right back on the plane, sent off an embarrassment. It was a total failure. And it was a signal by China saying like look, we don't want to play this game.And because the idea of what first Harper and then, and then Justin Trudeau were messaging out to China was we have all of these resources, we can make them available to you for cheap.We'll get rid of our environmental regulation to allow for easy access if you just simply give us a bigger seat at the table of the Asia Infrastructure Investment bank if you allow us to basically have more presence.Which means, I mean Canada is the monarchy in your, the institutions that you've been trying to build and you know, also loosen your, your relationship with Russia because currently China's got this strategic comprehensive partnership with Russia which provides so much natural gas and oil and other things that, that China desperately does need. But the offer was well, Canada can give those same things but cheaper.So at, for a while it was appearing as though China was falling for the trap and, and they woke up to that. And I think there was that a bit of a tit for tat thing with the Huawei CFO getting arrested in Vancouver.And at the same time the, the, the George Soros spies, the two Michaels were co arrested in China for basically doing espionage. One of them was the Vice consul or the former vice consul for the Canadian consulate in Beijing who was arrested as a, as a spy.And so you had this sort of tit for tat thing going.China was accused by the Canadian government of doing election interference and secret honey traps and, and, and police, secret police stations, all this stuff. So the Canadian government was really going heavy Anti China and China and Russia together are still seen as strategic threats to Canada.But the, the, the polar aspect of the Silk Road is very important and it's been something that I've been very optimistic about for quite some time.It was announced in 2019 or 2018 as the Arctic extension of the polar of the, of the East West Silk Road corridors, which involves also a maritime component. The Russians as of 2021, Putin made the development of the Far east and Arctic a high priority for Russia in the 21st century.And he enmeshed, he basically signed Russia onto the Polar silk Road in 2022. So they were integrated as one system that would also involve building rail. What's his name? Not Glazy of oh.Russian officials called for the building up of 5 major advanced industrial cities in the Arctic and Far east as well, which is super important. Shoigu. Sorry. Yeah, Sergei Shoigu.

Blair

Sorry.

Matthew

Explicitly.So I think all of this was quite good and that created a foundation of I think good cooperation to redeem Canada, the United States, other European countries that wanted to survive around something that would benefit everybody if we chose to do it.Instead of though accepting those opportunities though the problem is we've instead chosen to treat these things as if they're threats to be destroyed, which is a loss of a major opportunity to save civilization in my view.So as of now, if you build like, if you militarize the Arctic as part of the full spectrum dominance encircling Russia and China, but now involving now Greenland and Canada's High Arctic, the opportunity to join and collaborate on the, on the Polar Silk Road is gonna, is gonna disappear already.The East West Belt and Road Initiative is, is under threat of being destroyed which is sort of the, that's been China's main foreign policy program since 2013 because the major artery of that flows through Iran. So you need to stabilize Iran for that to work.Which involves new development corridors stretching from Europe to Asia with extensions into Russia but also down into Africa. If you blow up that region, anybody who can blow up that region will destroy the east West Bri stabilizing influence.And also the Russian led international north south transportation corridor that goes from the northern above St. Petersburg in the High Arctic all the way down through Central Asia, around the Caspian Sea down into Iran and then downward into India with ports the Chabahar, the Basra ports in the south of Iran and India as well. That 9,000 kilometer transport corridor involves Iran. Like Iran is the key to make that work.If you can blow up Iran, you destroy that transport Corridor, you destroy, or at least really, really handicapped. Eurasian integration, Eurasian partner, the greater Eurasian Partnership, as, as some have called it.

Blair

So what about, if I may. Yeah, what about. I mean, okay, Trump decapitated the Iranian leadership and hopefully, I, I'm not sure. I think I just read that they were.They had already elected, like, the next batch of mullahs or whatever they're called.

Matthew

Yeah.

Blair

But if, if the people don't rise up and take or challenge that and become. And it become, if. If it does become a Western civilization, if again, if you will, would that. Would that still. That corridor still be saved?Or would it. No. No. You don't think so?

Matthew

No, no. I mean, the current policy has to. Well, I mean, Iran already created some.Some months ago a devolution of authority program already like a continuity of government. Lara Johnny, who had met with Putin just a month ago and then also had meetings with the Chinese in Russia.Lara Johnny is one of the top representatives of the Chinese governing class. And, and he oversaw this.He basically oversaw the giving, giving of instructions to all elected representatives on the federal and the provincial levels, since there's a number of provinces, too, to basically delegate authority to a parallel system of government, both in military and civilian affairs, if any decapitation. Decapitation strikes should happen. So it does seem like there is a certain momentum to keep the government going.But right now we know that the CIA really, really has been putting a lot of propaganda out for Reza Shah, the.The son of the Pahlevi, to Shah Palevi, who was overthrown in 1979, to be brought in as sort of the, the guy, you know, he did his little thing with the Wailing Wall, paid homage to the powers he had to pay homage to already a number of crimes. And no, he. If, if, if he's. I don't. Well, there's no love for him in, in the actual streets of Iran. Iran is 90 million people. They don't really.Most people don't tend to like him, but there's still, there's still a lot of influencers in the west who think they could play the world like a giant board game and just piece physically there on the game board without realizing that it doesn't work. You'd have to do something very different.It seems like, I think that the major agenda behind the current war in Iran is not really to stop international terrorism.If we wanted to stop international terrorism, which was part of the language used to justify this, is we would have stopped the CIA from funding ISIS and Al Qaeda over the past decades. And decades, but we haven't. We've actually given ISIS all power in Syria.It's the head of the former was the head of ISIS in Syria, who we granted to be the guy who will now be in charge of Syria. So we're actually empowering ISIS everything we touch. And so Iran itself, the major reason why they've done this attack is twofold.Number one is to destroy the Eurasian integration as Zbigniew Brzezinski had said in 1997, that the only threat to the new world order would be the possible alliance of Russia, China and Iran, which together might have enough influence to fight back against their designs for a new world order, a post nation state system of technocracy. The. So the other thing is the Greater Israel Project, that's I think also a big agenda behind a lot of this.You know, we have to keep in mind that Yitzchak Rabin was killed in 1995 by a Zionist cutout right when he was to finalize the two state solution with Yasser Arafat. So that had to be stopped. They killed him. It wasn't even a Muslim terrorist that killed him, it was a Jewish terrorist that killed him.But then that gave space for Benjamin Netanyahu to gain power for the first time as Prime Minister of Israel.And he commissioned with Paul Wolfowitz and other followers of Brzezinski, the clean break doctrine which was made public for Israel called A strategy for securing the realm in 1996, which called for the overthrow of Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria.Iran was the big trophy to get to because if you could do that, then you could essentially create a space in which Greater Israel could consolidate their power by having no organized opposition anywhere in the region, Sunni or Shia alike. So that was done. This is the same group, by the way, that this is a project for new American Century document.And that was the same group that that organized 9 11, blaming it then on some guy in a cave. Actually it was the CIA working with Mossad, but you know, we'll just ignore that.So there's the same group that did all of those things in order to justify this essentially new age of crusades of enmeshment into these foreign wars.But with the idea of rebuilding this power structure of Greater Israel that involved an idea of a much bigger Israel than the one we currently see that involves, you know, basically extending the borders from the Nile to the Euphrates, basically a lot of a map very similar to the Neo Babylonian Empire.As far as the what the Babylonian empire was back when the Jews were in captivity almost the exact same map is what they want for what they think of as their divinely ordained, you know.But that requires again any type of organized opposition to be destroyed, which unfortunately Iran was playing a big role in preventing a lot of that through their support of Hezbollah, through their alliance with Iraq. But that's gone now. So I think those are the two big things behind the strikes on Iran.And you know, you gotta keep in mind as well like there's Iran is not this Mordor that we've been told by Fox News and stuff like that's what we've been propagand, we've been propagandized to think of Iran as this evil mullah, dark place of Mordor, of pure evil, where you can't be a Christian, you can't be. There's 380000 Christians living in Iran. There's like 300 churches in every province. There's a church, there's 100 synagogues.It's the biggest Jewish population outside of Israel. Pretty good harm like they live pretty harmoniously. The shopping centers.If you look at these YouTube videos of life in Tehran and in different, you know, major cities of Iran, people just like they walk with their phones in the streets of Iran and shopping malls, it looks like it could be freaking cosmopolitan New York. It's not like this, you know, scary place that we're, that we're being told.So again, propaganda is at a max right now and it's difficult to sort of cut through that as well.

Blair

I see, I see. I, I, I want to talk about, I think in Trump's first term they did some sort of agreement with Alberta about a pipeline.Is that still active or do you know if that's, and that would, that wouldn't be part of the Silk Road thing though. But this was just a total between the United States and Alberta.I guess this pipeline coming down for oil, is that, is that still active or do you know?

Matthew

Well, Carney disrupted a number of these discussions. There was the attempt for a Keystone XL pipeline that was canceled.

Blair

There was the word I wanted Keystone.

Matthew

Yeah, yeah, there was the, that was 2021. That was canceled by Justin Trudeau and the, the eco anti growth freaks in Ottawa. But then earlier you had the Energy east pipeline.They, they invested $15.7 billion and then they canceled it in 2017. Then you had the Enzbridge pipeline a year earlier that was canceled.So there has been a lot of sabotage to destroy Alberta's economic independence and opportunities to really have a, to just Basically thrive. So I think currently with the, the Alberta separatist movement.I'm, I'm, you know, I go to Alberta a couple of times every year to speak to, to freedom groups there and there's a lot of life, there's a lot of hope, and they're very well organized. Their, their petitions to call for a referendum exceeded expectations.So it's looking like a referendum is going to happen before sooner than people realized. And it does appear that they're getting some health.I think good support from figures around Trump who have made an offer, as this guy Raf pointed out, that Jeff, Jeff, not Jeffrey, Raf, anyway, the head of the Alberta Prosperity Project, Jim Raff.Anyway, he, he gave an interview and he said after meeting with Trump's team, not Trump directly, but people very closely tied is that they were given an offer to have a $500 billion credit line from the United States if they do successfully separate from Canada. Because, you know, it's tough. You're gonna, you're gonna be in an economic, in a sense.So that gives a really, really good space of negotiation for Daniel Smith, the premier, to tell Carney, look, we're not that dependent on you at the end of the day.And Trump would, you know, if we were working with, had a special relationship, maybe not join the usa, maybe not at first, but at the very least with a special relationship, we could very quickly start developing like crazy to the benefit of all of the people living there. We could, you know, increase living standards like crazy.We could open up the northern part of Alberta that's been withheld from development for a long time. And yeah, that might attract Saskatchewan, it might attract British Columbia into saying, hey, we can, we can do that too.Quebec already has a, there's been a four by elections that have been won consecutively in Quebec of Quebec separatists because of what they're seeing as inspiration from Alberta. So that could also create some positive non linear effects too. Who knows?

Blair

Okay, but where would Quebec go? I mean, as far as. Would they declare themselves Army France or something or.

Matthew

No, there's a lot of anti French hostility in the Quebec culture.

Martin

They're even more French than we're French.

Matthew

Huh?

Martin

They are even more French than the French.

Matthew

Can you expand upon that?

Martin

Yeah, the Quebec that they talk, speak French and they.

Blair

Well, we've heard here traditions.

Matthew

Oh, I see what you're saying.

Blair

Yes, they disdain people who speak English and they don't. They.

Matthew

Well, okay, so, you know, I mean,

Blair

it's, that's just anecdotal stuff, you know, no, it's true.

Matthew

There, there's baggage, there's baggage, um, less so now than there was maybe 20 years ago. But it's, it's there. Um, and, and what Martin was saying, it's noteworthy that it's a bit of a.If, especially when you go to like rural Quebec, it's a bit of a time capsule where I've had French classics professors who have told me the same thing, that if you want to get anyone to perform a proper Rabelais to actually really speak and read Rabelais gargantuan, ask a rural Quebecois to do it, not a Parisian, because they speak more in harmony with the old French dialect that was lost under the French Revolution and the Cartesian culture of France that sort of separated them from that more guttural folkish language. Um, so you do have that.But in the same measure, I think since the last time Quebec had a healthy relationship with France was really when Charles de Gaulle came down in 1967 and gave his famous, you know, tour de roi. Like he did a series of speeches all across the towns of Quebec and gave his famous Vive la Quebec libre speech, you know, long live free Quebec.Yeah, speech.

Blair

Okay.

Matthew

And that was a healthy relationship based upon an idea that Quebec and France would together work, you know, under de Gaulle. Strategy against NATO for economic development, anti colonialism.De Gaulle had earlier made a lot of enemies amongst the fascists of the, the secret army organization of France that was supporting that was the old Vichy generals, the racist generals that wanted to keep France into a, a colonial empire, subduing the darker skinned races in Algeria and other places. And he made an enemy with them because he was saying, no, let's actually move into the 21st century. Let's let these people go free.Let's encourage economic industrial development for everybody that we formerly abused. And he kicked out NATO from France and they were forced to go to Belgium.So he had this whole strategy with his buddies in power around Daniel Johnson in Quebec who invited him. And it was a really great idea. But Daniel Johnson was, it's seems, assassinated. It seems like he was poisoned. In 1669, all was overthrown.He survived 30 assassination attempts, but he ultimately was overthrown by a, by a CIA regime change in France in 69.And then from there there was just this new type of identity socially engineered into the mindset of the Quebecois around the idea that your identity is, this is the language you speak, not the thoughts that you have. And every, it became sort of like, like, like the, the unhealthy Israeli identity became like more blood and soil. Like it's, it's.It's our blood, our soil. It became kind of like that for the Quebecois except language became the sacred thing and it would, it didn't matter if people had no thoughts.It was just the, the language itself that was the, the basis of these English versus French gang fights and wars and grievances. And somehow they were convinced that their. They're not French anymore. There's no connection between the quebeco and the, the French.They're a distinct unique civilization. Kind of like what's being done to the, the Taiwanese. If you think about like the Taiwanese have, have, have.The same formula was applied to brainwash the, the especially the youth of Taiwan since the 90s, that you're, you're not Chinese, you're your own thing. It's like they all speak Chinese. Like they, they all you. They, they speak Mandarin, they use Chinese characters. They, they're.They're there because of the, they're there because the KMT went to Taipei after 1949. It's like. But no, you're your own thing. You deserve to have a separatist movement and that.That's become like this foreign directed brainwashing of a whole people that can then be weaponized and used to promote, you know, separation when it's expedient because they're ultimately disposable. The people who promote it in, in Washington don't care if the people in Taiwan all die. They don't give a.It's like the Ukraine, right, where they convince the Ukrainians, yo, you're not. There's no connection with you and the Russians. You're your own thing. You're, you're, you're.And so they started brainwashing and writing their, their, their history books from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, all of these hard Nazi killers who were given sanctuary and were given authorization to write the story of Ukrainians that incubated this psyche within the Ukrainian mindset, that of, of this unhealthy type of toxic nationalism that was then able to be triggered for, for, for color revolutions in 2004 and then 2014, around the same idea. It's like. So they did the same thing for the Quebecois. It's.But there's again now something new happening that I kind of like as far as a rejection of the idea of hereditary institutions. The Quebec Assemble Nacional voted to reject the idea of King Charles III as the, their head of state, who he still legally is.He still legally is the head of state. But they rejected it in at least in a vote. And now you get these, these separatists who are beginning to win these by elections.Who knows what kind of collaboration that could have with Alberta or Saskatchewan if it does become an independent country, pro development, who knows?

Blair

All right, Matthew, well, thank you for all this, all this plethora of incredible knowledge. I mean, we could, we could go down a rabbit hole almost everything that you've, that you brought up.But let's go, let's go back to Greenland just for a second and it's, I mean, I'm actually, I may have to wrap this up pretty soon for myself and I'll speak about, I'll put this in the frame of like, what would you tell the American people that they probably misunderstand about Greenland, its history, its people and its strategic importance? What would you say to the American people or the people of the West? And we'll leave. We'll let it go.

Matthew

Greenland needs your help. I mean, clearly they're not getting the help from Denmark or from the European Union.I, you know, look, I think if, if you wanted to do this type of Arctic development strategy, well, you have to most of the, most of the, the, the Inuit of Canada as well as of Greenland because I'll use them both in the same language since I see it's. It's a very similar social dynamic with very similar opportunities and, and problems. Both of them have been. You have suffered eugenics policies.The, the people of the Inuit of, of Greenland had their birth rate collapsed by 50% in the early 70s because of a eugenics policy that sterilized their young women.And the same thing was happening at the very same time by Ottawa doing the same thing to the Quebec native First nations peoples whose populations collapsed. Fertility levels collapsed for the same reasons. At the same time, they've been boxed in.They've been isolated and iced out of any discussions around development. So when there have been discussions over the whole.

Martin

Matthew, is this document somewhere? Because this is horrendous and you know.

Matthew

Oh yeah, I, I think I might have like linked to that in my, in the text that I published on Substack. If not, people can just Google it. It's everywhere that's been written about pretty extensively.Just Google eugenics, sterilization, Greenland in Google you'll find a lot of coverage on that.

Martin

So that's one reason why it's only like 56. Yeah. What did you, how many did we say?

Blair

Some people there. Yeah.

Martin

Yeah. So it hasn't developed much due to one. One reason could be this. Right.

Matthew

One reason is that, yeah, and you know, you're not going to develop if you stagnate and they've just been told to sit on their resources, don't develop them. Don't have modern civilization. That's not, that's not part of your culture. That's a very racist thing that they've been.That, that's been put on them right under this idea of, of cultural relativism, like, oh, we care about the colonialized people. You're so pure because you're, you don. Have technology. We care. We want to protect you from technology and industry.And it's like, no, that's actually a very racist thing because these people are living at much lower living standards. Their, their suicide rate, everything.You're giving them access to television sets, you're giving them access to drugs, to, to alcohol, but you won't give them access to like things that make that you enjoy on mass. As far as opportunities in our Western civilization.Yeah, like, so it, it screws up people's heads and they, they, all they want is like a seat at the table to be a part of the conversation, to be respected. They want, they're very open to development, including in the Canadian natives as well. They're very open. They just want the respect.Not feel like they're either going to be smothered or be used like human flag poles for geopolitical purposes on a, on a chessboard. I think for the Americans, they have to go down there with, with a sense of like healthier.Invite the chiefs, invite the, the, the elders and others to the conversation table about how these different projects are going to unfold. They will, they, they won't, they won't inhibit it. But I would say as well, like do it in the spirit of peace.You know, like, like go up there with the idea not of the eventual war we have to win against Russia, but yeah, trade. Go up there with the spirit of, of win win cooperation. Look at what Russia and China have already done to pioneer Arctic development.And let's work with them as allies and have our enemy image placed properly in mind as it really is.It's British intelligence, it's the city of London, it's these old banking elite clans that have been holding on like a parasite since the Roman Empire that never left. That's our end.

Blair

We don't have to have you on just for that segment alone. There's the city of London.

Martin

Yeah, we have to have a follow up. Is that the link to the same crowd at the Davos and World Economic Forum, or is that a separate thing?

Matthew

No, it's.

Blair

It's. It's.

Matthew

That's the same. Same type of thing. It's. Yeah.

Blair

Okay. Okay, okay. Well, I'm sorry I have to end this, but. Ladies and gentlemen, we were privileged to have Matthew Ehrett today.And, Matthew, where can people find you on the Internet?

Matthew

They can go to matthewer.substack.com or I put out little substacks every day, or canadianpatriot.org is my geopolitical magazine site and final. And my books are there and videos that we make are all there. And then there's also.The last one, I'll say is risingtide foundation.net it's a bit more of an education cultural site that I manage with my wife, so we do events every week and things that people could take part in if they reach out via that website.

Blair

Very good, very good.

Martin

So where are you located in Canada?

Matthew

You said it went Montreal? Near Montreal, yeah.

Blair

Very good, very good. Well, again, Matthew, thanks for manning the foxhole with us.

Matthew

It's a pleasure.

Martin

Thanks.

Matthew

All right. Looking forward to the next one?

Blair

Yes, please. Yes. Well, I'll see what we can do. All right. Thank you, man. Sam,