Someone Help Premier Smith... Her Credibility Is Missing
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I ve been hard on Alberta Premier Danielle Smith the last week, and I think rightfully so. She has now aligned herself with the establishment, with Ottawa, with Mark Carney, with the Liberal Party of Canada, and with people who are fighting against her base who want a better life for their children and grandchildren.
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Hi, it's John and welcome to the channel 510 a.m. Monday, June the 8th. I hope you're having a
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great start to your Monday with the big blue mug of coffee. Hope you had a good weekend as well.
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So over the last week, I've been a little bit hard on Premier Danielle Smith, and I think
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rightfully so. I did do a video within the last week saying she's one of the greatest spokespeople
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for the Alberta independence movement. As she says, Alberta has an Ottawa problem, but Premier
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Danielle Smith has now aligned herself with the establishment, with Ottawa, with Mark Carney,
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with the Liberal Party of Canada, as far as I'm concerned, and with people who are fighting
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against her base, who want a better life for their children and grandchildren, and that would be the
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independence movement. Don't believe what you're hearing in the media, folks. The independence
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movement is growing here in Alberta. But I have been hard on Danielle Smith. Now, she did a speech
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the other night. I'm going to play a short segment of that, and we're going to go over
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her speech, where she's touting her great accomplishments working with the federal
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government, working with the establishment, working with Mark Carney, working with the
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liberals in Ottawa. She touts the accomplishments of the United Conservative Party here.
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And is she outright lying about things? Maybe not, but she's twisting the truth into a pretzel.
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Now, you might remember it was a little over a year ago where she came out spitting fire about nine bad laws that must be removed.
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And she gave it a time frame sometime in the fall.
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A couple have, but not the most important ones.
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So what I'm going to do right now, before I get to the video of Danielle Smith, the big grin on her face, she looks rather glossy.
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I don't think she's getting much sleep these days, but I'm going to play a clip of her going
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over four points, which take those nine bad laws into consideration. And she throws in a couple
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other things Alberta wanted as well. And then we'll come back and look at her video from just
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the other night and we'll pick it apart because basically the premier is telling a lot of fibs
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to the people of this province. And by the way, watch the people in the audience who are obviously
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people who are her loyalists with some very lukewarm applause. So let's go back to last year
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and hear from Premier Danielle Smith. First, Alberta requires guaranteed corridor and port
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access to tidewater off the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic coasts for the international export of
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Alberta oil, gas, critical minerals and other resources in amounts supported by the free market
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rather than by the dictates and whims of Ottawa.
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Second, the federal government must end all federal interference
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in the development of provincial resources by repealing the No New Pipelines Law, C-69,
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the oil tanker ban, the net-zero electricity regulations,
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the oil and gas emissions cap, the net-zero vehicle mandate,
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and any federal law or regulation that purports to regulate industrial carbon emissions,
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plastics or the commercial free speech of energy companies these laws are destroying investment
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confidence and costing Canada and Alberta hundreds of billions in investments each year they need to
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go third the federal government must refrain from imposing export taxes or restrictions on the
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export of Alberta resources without the consent of the government of Alberta and fourth the federal
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government must provide to Alberta the same per capita federal transfers and equalization as is
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received by the other three largest provinces, Quebec, Ontario, and British Columbia. Premier
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Smith with a very serious face when she said those things. I would say she has two faces. She's a
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little bit two-faced. But let's take a look at the propaganda, or sorry, the social media postings
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from the Alberta government. I'll just move my face out of the way there. Alberta, there it is,
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logo down in the bottom right corner. You can see up in the top left here, it's unity. Alberta and
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Canada, fixing Canada's nine bad laws. We'll get to the premier and her words the other night in
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just a moment. So here are the nine bad laws, but the words have been kind of fudged here a little
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bit. So let's go through a few of these. No more oil and gas production cap. No more consumer
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carbon tax. Well, yeah, that's one of the laws that's gone. Thank you to Pierre Polyev and the
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Conservative Party because we would still have that if it wasn't for them prior to the election
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last year. Just remember that. No more Alberta net zero power regs. No more EV mandate. No more
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export tax threats. A new West Coast pipeline. Tanker ban adjusted. Interesting the way that
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word has been thrown in there. I don't think that's what she actually asked for. We'll get
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to that in just a moment. Greenwashing provisions were removed. I will give them that. Probably the
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least important thing among these nine bad laws. And at the bottom, you can see a question mark
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labeling plastics as toxic. The federal government still wants to take away your straws. They're
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challenging that in court. So let's go over to Danielle Smith and hear what she had to say
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in front of the loyalists of the United Conservative Party. And again, you're going to
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see them clapping politely, but not enthusiastically, because I don't think they're
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buying what the premier is selling here. Here we go. The oil and gas emissions cap is gone under
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this agreement. And that means instead of phasing out the oil sands, we can now double our oil and
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gas production and generate hundreds of billions in wealth and hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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The oil and gas emissions cap is gone. Well, that is true, but it was replaced with an industrial
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carbon tax, which adds another 10, maybe 15 dollars to a barrel of oil in Alberta, making us
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uncompetitive. In addition, under this agreement, the dangerous net zero electricity regulations
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gone. Is that true? Well, perhaps. But I've shown you this document before. This is the Prime
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Minister of Canada. His website, May 14th, 2026, Prime Minister Carney announces forthcoming
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national electricity strategy. Not a lot of people talking about this. I did talk about this before
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and I did search for the word clean and you can see it up here. It's 25 times in this short document
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and I'm going to read every one of them because it's number one on the list for Mark Carney.
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This is the new net zero energy program and you can see it says national there and until Alberta
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votes to leave the country, we're still part of the country and this is what we're going to get
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pushed down our throat by Kearney and the Liberals out in Ottawa. Clean grid. Clean, reliable,
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affordable power. A lot of that in here. Clean electricity regulations. Clean energy system.
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Clean energy. Clean economy of the future. Clean electricity generation projects. Clean electricity
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transmission lines. Clean energy. Clean economy investment tax credits. Clean affordable and
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reliable energy. Clean, affordable, reliable energy. Cleanest power grids in the world. Clean
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electricity. Clean energy economy. Clean power for all Canadians. Clean, affordable and reliable
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power. Clean energy future. Clean, reliable, affordable. Clean energy deployment. Clean
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economy. Clean electricity. Clean technology. Clean energy target. Welcome to Net Zero, Madam
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Premier. Let's move on in her speech. The greenwashing provisions, gone. That's true.
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The oil export tax threats, gone. We do have an industrial carbon tax.
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Moving on. Federal interference and approvals for a project within the boundaries of our province,
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gone. Perhaps that's true, but folks, we still have federal interference when it comes to getting
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or oil out of this province. She doesn't bring up Bill C-69 and Bill C-48. You see that back in this
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in this previous thing I showed you, it says tanker ban adjusted. Now she wanted it gone.
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The federal government must end all federal interference in the development of provincial
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resources by repealing the no new pipelines law, C-69, the oil tanker ban. But it isn't gone.
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it's still there and this is one of the big problems when it comes to oil and gas in our
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province we can't do anything bill c69 is the pipeline ban the tanker ban is bill c48 she said
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she wanted them gone repealed they're not repealed she is fibbing here she's stretching the truth
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let's move on the electric vehicle mandate gone is it gone well in a way it's gone
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but it's been replaced by other regulations an article from the canadian broadcorp incastration
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a goodbye ev sales mandate hello purchase rebates carney shakes up canada's auto industry i'll read
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a little bit of this too you don't want to bore you to tears prime minister mark carney repealing
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Canada's electric vehicle mandate that required all new car sales to be electric in a decade,
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scrapping another Trudeau-era environmental policy. It's only 75% now. Okay. Instead,
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Carney is taking his own approach by introducing stronger greenhouse gas emission standards
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for vehicle models 2027 to 32 to encourage automakers to produce more zero-emission vehicles.
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Canada will set a new, more ambitious, sovereign path to reduce automobile emissions, Carney said
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at a news conference at an auto parts manufacturer in the greater Toronto area.
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We're tightening by twofold our greenhouse gas emission standards,
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and we're giving the industry the flexibility how they achieve that,
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whether through plug-in hybrids, EVs, more efficient ICE, internal combustion engine vehicles.
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So he's just replacing the EV mandate with 75% instead of 100 by 2035 and adding on additional regulations.
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might I add that the United Conservative Party grassroots members overwhelmingly voted to abandon
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net zero targets at their UCP annual general meeting in Red Deer. And it says down here,
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the party voted to strip carbon dioxide of its designate as a pollutant, instead formally
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recognizing it as a foundational nutrient for all life on earth. But Daniel Smith is just
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disregarding what her party had to say about that. Let's move on.
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and it needs to be said again, Stephen McGeebo is gone. Okay, so this is red meat for the party,
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but watch the unenthusiastic applause for this. These people aren't buying what she's selling here.
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And with our recent agreement to greatly reduce federal carbon pricing from the Trudeau-Geebo
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plan. Industry now has the time and the certainty needed to plan and invest and deliver real
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emissions-reducing projects without undermining competitiveness. Do you believe that? She's been
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trying to find an investor for a pipeline for months, and she hasn't announced one yet. Folks,
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she's going to roll something out around July 1st and present a pipeline plan to the major
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Projects office here in Calgary that Mark Carney set up, but there won't be any shovels in the
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ground. She's going to say we could have shovels in the ground by next year. Don't count on it.
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Of course, this agreement sets out a path towards construction of a new million barrel per day
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West Coast pipeline with construction starting as early as September 1st of 2027. So I'd like to say
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that while the best time to build new pipelines was a decade ago, the second best time is right
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Okay, let me just address this for a moment. She's said many times, we've lost $175 billion
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in investment in our province, mostly in oil and gas. That is generational theft from the people
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of Alberta. That's criminal. We had that article not too long ago, I'll bring it up again, RBC,
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a trillion dollars in lost investment because of the liberals. And she's just passing it off like,
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oh, well, we'll just move on from the generational theft. Let's move on.
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New pipelines, west, east, north, and south, without delay and without hesitation.
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Without hesitation? The only pipeline that has been approved is one here, South Bow Targets
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2027 decision on Canada-U.S. oil pipeline revival. Let me read you one line from this story.
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U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an order granting a cross-border permit to the new proposal.
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The only person that has approved a pipeline for Alberta is the United States and Donald Trump.
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Mark Carney tomorrow could approve a pipeline to the West Coast in the national interest, but he hasn't done it yet.
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To supply Asian and European and American markets with safe and reliable and responsibly produced Alberta energy.
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Not just the West Coast Oil Pipeline Project, but also Enbridge, Trans Mountain, South Bow, Pembina, and ATCO are all advancing expansions and new projects representing hundreds of billions of dollars of investment in new pipeline capacity.
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This is the greatest expansion of pipelines that we have seen in decades.
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There's been an expansion, but there's no pipeline approved.
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We've been asking for pipelines to go east and west for a decade.
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can't get it done. Alberta will double our oil and gas production by 20. Yeah, by sending it
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south into the United States. 35. Reaching 8 million barrels per day. Oh yeah, meet that demand.
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Not too many people clapping here. Look. That's just the energy story. Thanks to the removal of
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the net zero power regulations. This is extraordinary. She's lost her party. They're
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not very happy with what she's saying here. And let me bring up this because she didn't bring this
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up. I've used this graphic many times before. Each time I have to raise the money amount. It's now
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$20 billion. It was at $16 billion. This is the carbon capture machine that Danielle Smith has
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agreed to put in based on her MOU with Mark Carney. I've put to infinity here because Albertans are
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going to have to pay for this thing. People don't want to live next to it. And of course, the UCP
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voted to end net zero targets here in this province. She's just kind of disregarding what
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they want. And the other thing that she mentioned off the top, one of those demands she made,
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it was number four, was an end to unfair equalization. Alberta puts $25 billion
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into equalization payments every year. Albertans voted 62% to end equalization in a referendum in
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2021. And it hasn't happened because it requires constitutional change. It will never happen.
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The only way it will happen is if people vote for Alberta independence.
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Danielle Smith has lost her party, she's lost her base, and quite frankly, I think