Apathy causing Canadians to lose democracy: David Parker
'Take Back Alberta' leader David Parker spoke at this year's Rebel News LIVE! event about the need for Canadians to increase civic engagement and participate more in the political process.
Rebel News LIVE! 2025 in Red Deer, Alberta featured a number of prominent speakers discussing the unprecedented challenges facing Western Canada.
During the event, David Parker discussed how Canadians' apathy towards politics has led the nation to the troubling point its reached today.
Parker is the leader of 'Take Back Alberta', a grassroots movement aimed at advancing individual freedoms and shifting power from the ruling elite to everyday Albertans.
"The thesis behind Take Back Alberta is that our general population is so apathetic and ignorant of how their political system works, that we are losing our democracy," he explained.
"You think politics is like the weather, you think it happens, you observe it happening. You even pray for rain sometimes. But politics is not the weather. Politics is people."
Parker described what it will take from everyday Canadians to restore a government that is by the people, for the people.
"No leader is coming to save you, none ... If there's a sin of apathy, what is repentance? It's no longer being apathetic, no longer saying, 'I'm too busy, I have too much work, someone else can do it.' They can't, no one else is going to do it. If you don't do it, it will not happen."
Parker stressed that without a resurgence of civic engagement and political participation from everyday Canadians, the federal and provincial governments will continue betraying their populations.
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Robert Pariseau commented 2025-06-26 20:15:11 -0400See, this is precisely why all those rallying posts I see on X, Facebook, and YouTube are so infuriating. The message is always exactly the same, always delivered the exact same way. No one cares to take the time to research the rotting carcass of a system under which we live and vote.
The great 22-month ordeal that left most of us suffocating was the exact opposite of a wake-up call for many of them. Then again, bread and a circus had to be brought back in earnest to prevent the fools from catching on and turning against their masters.
That’s also why the calls for a federal election were repeatedly resisted and often outright ignored: so that the ruling party could get their house in order and work on their winning conditions. We don’t have any of the checks and balances that other nations do; worse, our landmass relative to our population (the vast majority within one hour of the U.S. border and the Eastern time zone) makes the kind of protests seen in Ireland either impossible or very easily crushed.
Bruce hit the nail right on the head there. You want to become or remain prime minister, you have to take the suburban (“elbows up!”) Boomers. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2025-06-26 19:45:58 -0400This is all part of the plan. Keep people happy with bread and circuses and they won’t notice how bad things really are. And when it’s far too late, only then will people see what happened. The apathy will evaporate once Canada becomes a totalitarian global state.
