Danielle Smith's Slick, Professional HAIL MARY - Is begging next？
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Summary
Premier Danielle Smith of Alberta has a video on her YouTube channel that has been getting a lot of attention. She is trying to convince the country that Alberta can become an economic and energy superpower, and she has a plan to do just that.
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Hi, it's John, and welcome to the channel, 12.33 p.m., Thursday, September the 4th.
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I didn't feel really inspired earlier this morning, but I saw a video pop up on my YouTube
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feed an hour and a half ago or so, and I wanted to comment on it.
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This is Premier Daniel Smith of Alberta, and this is a video she calls Three Bad Laws.
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And more and more people are watching this video.
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More than 6,200 people have now watched it, and it goes up by the minute.
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Well, this is what I would consider a Hail Mary pass by the province of Alberta and the
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Premier to finally get something done when it comes to our natural resources, our oil
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and gas industry, and the prosperity of my province of Alberta.
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So I think Danielle Smith sees the writing on the wall, and she's trying to get something
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I think the only thing she can do beyond this, and it's got to come really soon, is to become
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a pathetic character and get down on her knees and beg the country for prosperity for Alberta.
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Because her timeline for the federal government, that six months that she talked about, way
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And I don't think she thinks anything's going to get done.
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So this is a 9 minute and 20 second video of a lot of things we have heard before.
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And there's only one reason why what she wants here is not being done, and I'll have that
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So let's see what the Premier has to say, and we'll run through a few of these clips with
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This is the very start of the video, music removed so I don't get it demonetized.
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We all know Canada's economy is suffering right now.
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We've had an inflation crisis, high unemployment, declining GDP, capital investment fleeing Canada
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for other countries, massive federal deficits, and of course, the U.S. tariff threat, which
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has exposed just how dependent we are on one single country for the vast majority of our
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But what if I told you that we could help solve every single one of these problems with
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just a couple of key policy changes by our federal government?
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What if there was a way to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, attract back hundreds
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of billions in investment capital, bolster GDP growth, diversify our trade markets, and
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flow new revenues to federal and provincial budgets, all without spending a single tax dollar?
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And all that stands in the way is just some common sense and a bit of courage by our Prime
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But the reason why we're not doing this coming up in just a moment, she then goes on to say
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And one more thing, we literally live on top of more than a trillion barrels of oil and
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more than a quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas.
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These oil and gas resources represent an astounding tens of trillions of dollars in potential wealth
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That means hundreds of thousands of new great paying jobs, hundreds of billions in taxes
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and royalties for government services and infrastructure, and potentially trillions more in spin-off industries
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like AI data centres, petrochemicals, environmental technology, and a host of other industries that
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would benefit profoundly from the wealth generated from its development.
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Oil and gas is not only Canada's largest economic sector, it's Canada's trump card, so to speak.
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So, the next thing she goes on to say, well, she's talked about the things that we can have
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if we become an economic and an energy superpower, but she goes on to list the reason why that
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And then to cap it off, the federal government announced an impossible-to-achieve oil and
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gas emissions cap that makes new oil and gas production effectively impossible, which is
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why Albertans call it an oil and gas production cap.
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The funny thing about this particular emissions cap, it wasn't imposed on any other type of
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production, not on the production of cement, or steel, or aluminum, or any other product
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Nope, the cap was placed on just one single sector, oil and gas.
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You can probably understand why Albertans are mighty unhappy about that.
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The Conference Board of Canada just released a report concluding that this cap will cost the
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Alberta economy roughly $1 trillion in lost GDP, 150,000 jobs, and $200 billion in provincial
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Sounds like kind of economic suicide, doesn't it, to not unleash Alberta and our energy?
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In any event, all of these laws combined constituted one of the greatest acts of national economic
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No other nation would ever think to phase out its most valuable assets worth tens of
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trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of jobs for its people.
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And yet, that is exactly what Canada has done to itself.
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So, she then says we don't have to continue this way and list the three things that we need
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to do to become economically strong in Canada and, of course, in Alberta.
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We don't need to rely on any foreign nation for our economic well-being.
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Our success is a guarantee if, and here's the key, if our federal government and a couple
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of provincial ones will simply agree to unblock and unleash the power of our oil, gas, and
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So, here's where I want to comment just a little bit.
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She talks about the federal government and some provincial leaders.
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So, Danielle, why don't you call up those gentlemen and say, let's sit down and ask
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David, are you going to let us have a pipeline to the West Coast?
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Wab, are you going to let a pipeline go through your province, through Alberta?
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And Mr. Legault out in Quebec, you've been standing in the way of Alberta for years.
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Are you going to let a pipeline go through there?
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Because you're getting close to the point where you become a pathetic character.
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And you're down on your knees begging of the country.
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We just need the prime minister and our federal government to act and get it done.
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You know, during the election campaign, Carney and the Liberals, they played up the fact that it's Team Canada.
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And the provincial premiers did as well, including the aforementioned E.B. Canu and Legault.
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But to be a team, you have to have similar goals.
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Does Danielle Smith have similar goals to David E.B. or Wab Canu or Legault in Quebec?
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The only person she really has common goals with is Scott Moe in Saskatchewan.
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Maybe we should join up with Saskatchewan to become our own country.
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Why is it a Hail Mary pass right now by Danielle Smith producing this really well done and slick video?
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And why are we almost to the point of having to beg?
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I think we've been begging really for months to get things done.
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And we still haven't got a commitment by the government.
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Churchill, Manitoba, that's going to be thrown at us.
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And they're going to want us to be happy with that and be grateful that we get anything at all.
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Now, so far, carbon prices have been applied sparingly.
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It's called the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero for a reason.
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Because we've moved to the relentless logic of having to get emissions down consistent with the carbon budget.
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So we can't meet our ultimate objectives, which is to get to net zero emissions.
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We can't get there unless we do not just have a cap on emissions, but those emissions are brought effectively to zero.
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To reach net zero, every country, every company, every bank, every investor, every pension fund around the world will need to make some big changes.
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The company's responsibility, first and foremost, is to reduce their absolute emissions.
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And as the report says, they need to first reduce, then report, including net zero plans.
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So the companies and those who invest in them and lend to them, who are part of the solution, will be rewarded.
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But those who are lagging behind and are still part of the problem will be punished.
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Now, some of these clips go back years, but some of these clips are from this year.
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And this is why you're pissing into the wind, Madam Premier.
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And you're that close to becoming a pathetic character.
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There's only one solution to getting anything done.
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