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Why Canadians Want To Become 51st State w/ Viva Frei, Amanda Head & Wexit Founder Peter Downing – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 486
Mon, 26 May 2025
Canadian activists are pushing for Alberta to join the USA as the 51st state, driven by economic woes, political alienation, and threats against free speech. The Alberta 51st State Movement seeks a referendum to leave Canada, join the US, and gain free trade. While 90% of Canadians reject this plan, 10% in these provinces back it – exposing a significant distrust that Canadian citizens have of their government leaders. Amanda Head is a White House Correspondent for Just The News, host of the Furthermore with Amanda Head podcast, and co-host of Just The News, No Noise, airing weekdays at 6PM ET on the Real America’s Voice Network. More at https://justthenews.com and https://x.com/amandahead David Freiheit, aka Viva Frei, is a host of the Viva Frei show on Rumble, and co-host of Viva & Barnes Live on VIvaBarnes.Locals.com. More at https://rumble.com/user/vivafrei and https://x.com/thevivafrei Peter Downing, a former police officer and army reservist, is the primary founder of the Wexit America Fund and a leader of the Alberta 51st State Movement. He launched the Wexit and Alberta USA movements using public digital billboards in 2019 and 2020. More at https://americafund.ca and https://x.com/RealAmericaFund 「 SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS 」 Find out more about the brands that make this show possible and get special discounts on Dr. Drew's favorite products at https://drdrew.com/sponsors • ACTIVE SKIN REPAIR - Repair skin faster with more of the molecule your body creates naturally! Hypochlorous (HOCl) is produced by white blood cells to support healing – and no sting. Get 20% off at https://drdrew.com/skinrepair • FATTY15 – The future of essential fatty acids is here! Strengthen your cells against age-related breakdown with Fatty15. Get 15% off a 90-day Starter Kit Subscription at https://drdrew.com/fatty15 • PALEOVALLEY - "Paleovalley has a wide variety of extraordinary products that are both healthful and delicious,” says Dr. Drew. "I am a huge fan of this brand and know you'll love it too!” Get 15% off your first order at https://drdrew.com/paleovalley • THE WELLNESS COMPANY - Counteract harmful spike proteins with TWC's Signature Series Spike Support Formula containing nattokinase and selenium. Learn more about TWC's supplements at https://twc.health/drew 「 MEDICAL NOTE 」 Portions of this program may examine countervailing views on important medical issues. Always consult your physician before making any decisions about your health. 「 ABOUT THE SHOW 」 Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Kaleb Nation (https://kalebnation.com) and Susan Pinsky (https://twitter.com/firstladyoflove). This show is for entertainment and/or informational purposes only, and is not a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: Why are Canadians considering becoming the 51st state?
All right, more great guests today. Amanda Head is on location at the White House. She is the White House correspondent for Just the News, also the host of Furthermore with Amanda Head podcast. Weekdays at 6 p.m. on Real America's Voice Network, justthenews.com, furthermorepod.com. And then we will be joined by Viva Fry and his audience.
We will simulcast with his show to talk a little bit about the 51st state of Alberta, Canada. or Alberta, the 51st state, I guess we would call it. And we will be visited later in the show by Peter Downing, who is actually the founder of the movement called Wexit America Fund, which is about, he is a former policeman and he is a high profile leader of the Alberta 51st state movement.
Yes, that exists. I know California may secede to Canada, but we may get a piece of Canada in return. We're getting the better deal. We'll be back with Amanda Head right after this. Our laws, as it pertains to substances, are draconian and bizarre. The psychopath started this. He was an alcoholic because of social media and pornography, PTSD, love addiction, fentanyl and heroin. Ridiculous.
Chapter 2: What is the Wexit America Fund?
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Chapter 3: What are the economic reasons behind Alberta's statehood movement?
I couldn't. It was really troubling. All right, let's go right to my first guest, Amanda Head, on location in the White House, correspondent for Just the News, future Furthermore with Amanda Head podcast. Amanda, I first of all thank you for making an effort to give us a great shot from outside the White House, which would essentially be the same shot.
I shouldn't actually say anything because all the press coverage tents give you that shot that you're giving us here anyway, but we didn't want you to get electrocuted out in the thunderstorms.
I know, and I appreciate that. Listen, if we're going to be talking about the Maha movement, when you're talking about Maha, I know it's not one of the stipulations of it, but I'm pretty sure a requirement of being healthy ever or again is not getting burnt to a crisp by lightning.
Yeah, yeah, I would agree. A lightning strike is not part of the Maha plan. So I watched the press conference. I read the materials. I was impressed. Everybody seemed very upbeat. President Trump said he would take Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, and Dr. Oz and fire all of them if they didn't operationalize this effort to get drug prices down. What did you hear in the room there?
Yeah, you know, there were a lot of starkly revelatory items that President Trump talked about, and I'll give you some of those statistics in a moment. But Dr. Drew, what was interesting to me as I was hearing you tell your story about what you went through with prostate cancer and what you're currently going through, I was thinking to myself, you know,
At a time when our medical and our health and our pharmaceutical industry is so distrusted right now, then they want to heap this on, you know, creating even more skepticism around, you know, did he know? Didn't he know? Did they test for PSA? Did they not? Who didn't examine him? Who did examine him?
It's horrible.
But President Trump spoke about some of these statistics, and these are, you know— It's hard. I get it that it is very hard for parents to listen to these statistics because there is a parental impetus to protect your children. But the conversation around vaccines and a lot of the issues from vaccines cannot be emphasized enough. Here are some items.
More than 40% of American children have at least one chronic health condition. Since the 1970s, rates for childhood cancer have increased 50%. In the 1960s, less than 5% of children were obese. Now it is over 20%. So they are talking about the pesticides on our crops. They're talking about the nutrition in our foods and all of these things, the overprescribing of certain drugs for children.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of medical assistance in dying in Canada?
And Drew, it's like when we were growing up and they were singing the song to us, you know, the neck bones connected to the backbone, the shoulder bone and all of that. They're not making the connection between all of these things. And like you said, you've got medical doctors who are treating one issue.
They're not trying to heal the issue and they're probably not talking to people on the other person's team. So there's not really an effort in concert to make the person healthier and to heal the root causes of the issue. They're just slapping a bandaid. Yeah, exactly.
We just don't have time for it. We just don't. But yeah, I'll tell you what, the root cause of all this stuff is really where we need to spend our time. And we have not been. There's something else you triggered in my thinking about the medicines and the heel bone connected to the ankle bone. I can't remember what I was going to say. But shoot, it always comes to me about two minutes later.
Accutane. Oh, there you go. So what I was going to say was, you know, you can even go more towards the root cause as it pertains to all medication is that we expect medication to solve our problems. Medications, 100% of medications are dangerous. Vaccines are dangerous. Medications are
dangerous you take them only when the risk is outweighed significantly by the reward we have to do no harm adding risk with medication is usually all we are doing and at the same time back to our mental health we are ignoring the fact that That life is hard and leaning into some of those challenges is how we develop resiliency and competency. And ordinary misery is a good thing. Imagine that.
Not safe spaces, but ordinary misery.
Honestly, you just put yourself in situations where you're not 100% comfortable, then even that builds robustness. We're in an age where if it's cold in your house, you turn on the heater. If it's hot in your house, you turn on the AC. Discomfort does not actually mean that something is damaging you. I was on a kick for a while where I was taking cold showers every morning.
And I always thought to myself, it's uncomfortable, but it's not hurting me. And I think that we have moved into a place where we are so comfortable. We look for all of the conditions to be perfect. When in fact, you look at our ancestors, they didn't have any environment that was perfect. And we've moved into the place where we over-medicate everything.
And, you know, even back to the Accutane thing. Rather than treating it with that, focus on, you know, maybe there's a dairy issue. Maybe there's other type of, you know, maybe there's a hormonal issue and focusing on those types of things because your body's not going to produce problems for no reason. There's obviously a reason behind that.
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Chapter 5: How does the media influence public perception in Canada?
And I think he expected it to go one way, and maybe it went a little differently.
And, of course, when Trump creates these scenes, I guess he's in the Roosevelt room. Hi, Viva, right outside the White, the Oval Office. He always goes, well, it makes good TV. Yeah, he knows television. Viva, I want to introduce you to Amanda Head. She is a correspondent at the White House with Just the News. You can follow Amanda on XAmandaHead. Welcome, sir.
Thank you. But Drew, just so you know, you're on my channel now. I know. We're on like three or four platforms now. So everybody who's watching on my channel, welcome to Dr. Drew.
This is fantastic. And I said the same thing. I said we're going to bring Aviva in and his friends, I mean his viewers, and they are now our friends. But the one thing, Amanda, I'll tell you about Viva's sort of setup there is you just drop in. He goes, come join me on my thread at two o'clock. I did. And all of a sudden I was on with you. There's no waiting room or anything.
It's just, you're just there.
I'm sorry, guys. I didn't bring a crew. It's just little old me. But next time I will plan on doing some type of simulcast.
Well, it's all good. And listen, I'm going to let Amanda go. Unless you want to stay and talk to Viva. If you have any questions for him, you're welcome to stay with us.
I do. And then I have my own show at six o'clock. But Viva, I married into a Canadian family. They are a mixed family when it comes to any type of, you know, 51st state situation, whether it is just one province or all of them. What do you hear from your Canadian friends?
I actually hear that a lot of people in Canada were rightly offended by the joke, the quip. Sure. The problem is they were offended because they are among the most propagandized people on earth. And when you have media telling you how offensive it is day in and day out and that it's a serious assault on national sovereignty...
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Chapter 6: What are the concerns surrounding mental health and medication?
And, yeah, here we are.
Not to correct you, I'll phrase it differently. Canadians are subservient. And there's a difference between subservience and politeness. And subservient is polite until such time as the other people are not equally as subservient. Then they stop being polite. There's nothing polite about calling the cops on your neighbors because they're not...
in the park so it is people say like you know canadians are polite but it's a historical genetic difference in the country that america fought the british for their independence their god-given rights and the canadians are subjects to a king or a queen who says what their rights are and they're very deferential to authority and therefore very angry at the people who are not equally deferential to that authority yeah but i tease my husband because you know we have that american go ahead
I spent a bit of time up there lately, and they are very nice. But God help you if you scratch the surface. You scratch underneath, and seething rage comes out, especially over in British Columbia. It's really quite striking. Especially in a lot of the social issues. We're going to talk about the Albertans.
Oh, look, what I found the most inciting to the British Columbians, and this is my observation. You were lovely. I had a great time there. But when it comes to what's mine and what's yours, oh, my God. Yeah. sharing does not really a thing. It's not really a concept in British Columbia. It really was striking.
Viva, am I on to anything there? Well, I mean, there's the old, it's the old communist joke. Like what's mine is, what's mine is mine. What's your, mine is yours. And what's your, no, what's mine. What's yours is mine. And what's mine is mine. It's the old joke. Children do it.
Yes.
British Columbia is sort of the epicenter of, of, of woke and like Vancouver and Vancouver Island, even more so. I was out in Newfoundland. Victoria. Victoria, yeah. But you go out to Newfoundland, nicest people I've ever met in my entire life, where they invited me in and gave me, you know, pickled rabbit, literally, and just wonderful people.
There's wonderful people everywhere, in every country, across the globe, and there's also very intelligent people. Like, in America, I sort of analogize the liberals in Canada to the Democrats in America. Very tolerant, very smiley-smiley, until you say something like, you know, boys have penises and girls have a... Right.
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Chapter 7: What historical context affects Canadian-American relations?
There is a Ruski toughness and mentality that is apparent in that story.
The amazing thing, Drew, like I met a lot of Russians in Canada who are not as amenable or as not as easily manipulated by state media, state propaganda because they grew up in. Correct.
They're inoculated. They've been inoculated by the Soviet system. They don't fall for it. We fall for it. Listen, the E, I heard a great term yesterday, the EU SSR. The EU SSR is more authoritarian and centralized and Soviet like than the Soviet than the Russian citizens are subjected to right now.
Yeah, it is. We're calling it. I call it not even jokingly the European Soviet Union, but it is wild where, you know, Trump and Vance are right to some extent where they say that Europe and to some extent Canada does not share the core values of America of a free country anymore. It's like, why have, you know, don't sever ties entirely.
But if you don't culturally respect the same things where you're locking people up for social media posts like they're doing in the UK, fining people for misgendering employees like they're doing in Canada. At some point, you're going to say this relationship is no longer worth pursuing unless one of us changes and America should not go down that road.
So no, it is amazing that the people who come from oppressive regimes are more easily able to identify the tactics of a government that wants to control you at all costs. The people in Europe, in Canada are more amenable to still think the government's there to protect you because they listen to Ronald Reagan.
Yeah. Before I go, I will say I've always had this perception of Canada, even since I married into a Canadian family, that, you know, everybody has that friend who has that longstanding relationship back and forth and they intentionally leave something at their house so that there's there's still a piece of that relationship they can go back to.
That's what Canada feels like to me, because I know you have your own constitution, but you still have the Royal Bank. You still have royal ballets. There's still this this abusive relationship passed with the crown that they're just there.
clean hard you know we're not streaming them anymore now you're just sitting as a as by yourself on the stream not talking no no i see her we got her we got it we've got you amanda we have you oh good good good good
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Chapter 8: How is public trust in government impacting healthcare?
And the the this one case, I can't remember her name, Susan. She had like a transverse myelitis from guess what? A vaccine reaction. And she early was being encouraged to consider suicide early as opposed to just giving her some some assistance in living with a 12 year old son. Yeah, right.
Drew, that was Kayla Pollock, who got a quadriplegic or a quadriplegic from the Moderna booster after having to had two Pfizer shots. There was another case. I don't know if you saw the ad for Simon's. Simon's is a retail clothing chain in Canada who decided to dabble their toes into euthanasia, medical assistance, and dying.
And they did this whole two-and-a-half-minute montage, and they called it like all is beauty or something, about a woman who chose to end her life. She was like 30-some-odd, a young woman. because, you know, she wanted to die with dignity. And then it came out that the woman had posted Facebook posts to the effect that she didn't want to die, but that she couldn't get care in life.
So she just, you know, opted for death care. When I first discovered it, it was my brother, like two and a half years ago, who put up a post on Twitter that says something like, I think it was 13,000 people were euthanized in Canada in that year. And I was like, that's impossible. And then I started looking into it and it's been like going up 30, 40% year after year since the Supreme Court,
authorized or declared constitutional medical assistance in dying in 2016. And then they legislated that they were going to allow for the mentally ill to take their own lives because you don't want to discriminate against the mentally ill and you want to allow them to contract into death.
So they amended that, but then sunsetted that provision for a few years and then they extended that sunsetting the provision. But now we've entered a realm in Canada where
euthanasia accounts for four point some odd percent of all death in the country it's like the top five leading causes of death they want to expand it to mature minors or there's discussion about expanding it to mature minors for whatever that means the mentally ill they did a poll that like something like two-thirds of canadians approve of of euthanasia for the homeless
And it's an absolute death cult. And then you get state-run media, which Canadians don't yet identify as propaganda, saying euthanasia is actually going to save health care costs. It's going to cut costs of the health care system because we're going to kill the sick that we can't take care of, which we can't take care of now because of how bad it is.
So it's straight up a death cult coming out of Canada. And it's been put on blast. to the point where they're trying to downplay the extent to which they want to liberalize euthanasia. But it's state-sanctioned murder. And in two provinces, they've now basically said that you sort of have to opt out or you cannot opt out of organ donations. I think it was called Avery's Law out of New Brunswick.
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