The CASE for Alberta INDEPENDENCE - In DANIELLE SMITH'S own words
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Summary
Why Alberta needs to leave Canada. I speak with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith about the reasons why she believes Alberta should leave Canada and become an independent province. I think this is the most convincing video on the internet when it comes to Alberta leaving Canada.
Transcript
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I hope you're having a great start to your Thursday, August the 28th, with the Big Blue
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And I think this could be the most convincing video on the internet when it comes to Alberta
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And I want to speak directly with Premier Danielle Smith today.
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And I want to use these points to drive home the fact that we need Alberta independence
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I believe a majority of Albertans want independence.
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I believe a majority, Madam Premier, of your caucus, I've heard it's up to 70%, want Alberta
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These points are why Alberta needs to leave Canada.
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Anyone who hears them should be convinced that Alberta will be better when it is independent.
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Madam Premier, let's go through the points one by one.
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So number one, Alberta has been used as a piggy bank for the rest of Canada.
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And despite protesting by the province and you, it will not stop.
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We have no issue with Alberta continuing to subsidize smaller provinces with their needs.
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But there is no excuse for such large and powerful economies like Ontario, Quebec, BC or Alberta to be subsidizing one another.
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That was never the intent of equalization and it needs to end.
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Alberta has been victim of the unwritten policy of the East.
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To the new Prime Minister and the Liberal Party, I have one message.
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Enough with Ottawa trampling over our provincial jurisdiction like Canada's constitution doesn't exist.
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Enough with the meaningless virtue signaling climate policies that only make Canadians poorer and threaten our energy security.
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Enough of their screw the West will take the rest mentality.
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The government of Canada is run by net zero climate zealots who will never allow Alberta to reach its potential.
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Eco-extremist former Environment Minister Stephen Guibault is still in Cabinet.
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But that shouldn't surprise any of us, given that the new Prime Minister is a whole new level of climate zealot and eco-extremist.
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From his decades-long push for net zero banking that sought to make it impossible for banks to invest in oil and gas,
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to his promise now to massively increase carbon taxes on our industry, make no mistake, he wants to eviscerate our oil and gas industry.
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The government of Canada fails at negotiating with our biggest trading partner,
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while a strong Alberta is called names for doing what is necessary to ensure prosperity.
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They want me to abandon my post, remain in Alberta, and do absolutely nothing to defend our province.
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They want me to cower in the face of Eastern media pundits and politicians who favor political grandstanding to effective diplomacy.
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I'm fiercely criticized for going into the lion's den to change the hearts and minds of the very Americans
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that we need on Canada's side to avoid a trade war with the most powerful economy on Earth.
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They want this lady and Alberta to just sit down and shut up.
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We will not be pushed around and called traitors for merely having the courage to actually do something
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about our nations and provinces' predicament other than merely indulging in self-righteous tantrums.
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And I, for one, will never be silenced by the party in Ottawa that has sold out our beloved province
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for the last 10 years with the help of their NDP collaborators.
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Why should Alberta stay in a country that replaces a bad leader with one that is even worse?
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The offensive agenda that we have, whether it's emissions caps or net zero electricity regs,
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all generate from Mark Carney, who's been pushing that agenda for a long period of time.
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So if you think that I would meet the potential of his leadership with any enthusiasm, let me tell you,
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I think he'd be even worse than what we see out of Justin Trudeau.
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Madam Premier, why should Alberta continue to accept any rules that continues to threaten our biggest industry?
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The inability to approve pipelines, getting approvals and then having them pulled,
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having a convoluted regulatory process that makes it impossible to get new pipelines built,
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continued threats of regulating our power grid, continued threats of regulating our industry,
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continued threats of export taxes, cutting off energy.
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I haven't really seen any change that would lead me to be encouraged that we're going to have a reset on our relationship.
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Alberta and Albertans continue to get ripped off by Ottawa that uses our money to fund places that vote liberal.
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I mentioned that at the beginning of the evening, that our program costs are 70% of all tax dollars.
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And then they use political means to transfer it.
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Alberta, year after year, has $20 to $25 billion that is siphoned out of our system to go to Ottawa
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so that it can be spent mostly in Quebec, but also in other places that vote liberal.
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$600 billion in the last 40 or 50 years that have been taken out of this province.
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You don't think we might be able to do a little bit more on social spending
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You don't think we'd be able to cut taxes a bit if those $20 to $25 billion stayed here?
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It is $5,000 per Albertan that every single year gets transferred out of this province
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for political reasons so that the Liberals can continue to spend it in places that vote liberal.
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That is what is happening in the province and in the country.
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Alberta continues to be treated unfairly, but we're told to shut up and keep paying.
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In just the last 10 years alone, more than $500 billion, that's a half a trillion dollars,
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in global investment capital destined for our resource sector has disappeared.
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It walked away from Alberta and Canada and instead headed off to Texas, Asia, and the Middle East
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to places that welcome resource development and jobs.
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That cost Alberta and Canada quite literally hundreds of billions in GDP,
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corporate taxes and resource royalties for health care, education, and public infrastructure.
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It cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and thousands of healthy and growing businesses.
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It was national self-harm on a level never seen.
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Ottawa and the Liberal Party isn't the solution to any problem, Madam Premier.
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Our economy has been under attack for most of the last 10 years.
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Frankly, off and on for decades long before then.
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Not by a foreign country or by world economic forces.
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No, Alberta's biggest threat to our prosperity and growth has come from our own nation's capital.
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Ottawa, Liberals and the East have cost us tens of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in wealth for Albertans.
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And for the last 10 years, to put into context why we need it again a few years later,
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Ottawa, led by the Liberal government, has taken direct aim at Alberta's core industries.
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From Bill C-69, the No More Pipelines law, to the tanker ban off the northwest B.C. coast,
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the oil and gas emission cap, which of course targets one sector and we know is meant to be a production cap,
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not just an emissions cap, and their net zero mandates on electricity as well as vehicles.
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In fact, in just the last 10 years alone, more than half a trillion dollars in global investment capital
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destined for our resource sector has disappeared.
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It's cost us hundreds of thousands of jobs and hundreds of billions in GDP and resource royalties
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that could have been used for health care, for education and for public infrastructure.
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Canada continues to get in the way of what Alberta does best, building things.
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They aren't the solution to any problem. Ottawa is the problem. They get in the way.
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If they would just let us build more pipelines to get more of our product to market, whether it was,
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yeah, let me give you the numbers so that you just know how big it is.
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If we had had, if they hadn't cancelled Northern Gateway, that was approved and the federal Liberals cancelled it.
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We were well on our way to getting Energy East up and running,
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except for they couldn't see an end to the regulatory process after spending a billion dollars,
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and they didn't lift one finger to help us with the American administration
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when they turned around and cancelled it five seconds after Biden got elected.
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they'd be built today, and we'd be selling 2.5 million barrels of oil per day more.
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Mark Carney, the Liberals and Ottawa want to leave our riches in the ground, Madam Premier.
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Well, you have to understand just how damaged Alberta is by the fact that we didn't get pipelines built.
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If we had built Northern Gateway, if we'd built Keystone and we'd built Energy East,
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we'd have 2.5 million barrels more per day of production,
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which is $55 billion a year worth of GDP value,
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which is worth $17 billion to my government alone,
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and about an equal amount to the federal government.
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Oil is by far the most valuable export for Canada.
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Any of the projects that you will see on the ultimate list,
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I will tell you that a bitumen pipeline will be by far the greatest benefit to all of Canada.
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That's why we're going to continue to push for it,
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There's $9 trillion worth of value in discoverable and achievable reserves right now.
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No other country in the world would, and we shouldn't either.
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Because of Canada, Alberta keeps falling behind.
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Actually, we've got the lowest living standards in the world.
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Like, we're falling behind all the OECD countries in productivity growth,
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And that's because these are the kind of projects that consistently fail and do not get built.
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If we want to be a rich country and we want to be able to keep up with our neighbours and growth,
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We can't keep on borrowing and borrowing and borrowing.
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And watching the kind of situation that we've seen over the last 10 years develop.
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And so I think there needs to be a complete attitude adjustment about all of these projects
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because we've lost a lot of opportunity across the board, across the country.
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Madam Premier, I hope you found these points convincing.
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Wouldn't it be great if Alberta had a strong, official voice speaking out on behalf of the Alberta independence movement?
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