Juno News - October 27, 2025


Thousands of Albertans attend the “I am Alberta” rally Saturday afternoon


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1 minute

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146.62817

Word count

237

Sentence count

18


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A rally in support of the Alberta Independence Party and the upcoming referendum on independence from Canada. Alberta is the richest province in the country and has the highest per capita income of any other province in Canada, but it is losing billions of dollars a year in equalization payments.

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 What brought you out to the Alberta Independence Rally today?
00:00:03.120 Well, to support the APP.
00:00:05.660 I don't see any benefit to staying in Canada for children.
00:00:10.840 I don't see anything about that is not to be in favour of independence.
00:00:16.460 It just seems to, I'm an accountant.
00:00:18.980 Financially, it's the right thing to do.
00:00:21.420 Like, we are losing money every day being part of Canada.
00:00:25.000 So I believe financially, everybody would be much better off.
00:00:28.580 Because we'd be so rich, and we'd have taxes that we could afford to pay,
00:00:35.580 we could afford to move our oil, we could use our resources
00:00:39.320 to make Alberta the richest province or country it would be around.
00:00:46.160 That's why I'm here, for my grandchildren and my children,
00:00:49.240 my great-grandchildren, so that they can have the prosperity we had
00:00:53.820 when we were young and be able to buy a house, be able to buy a car.
00:00:57.980 Now they're all living in the basements because they can't afford it.
00:01:02.260 Albertans, it's time we face the truth.
00:01:04.860 Ottawa's system cannot be fixed from within.
00:01:08.240 Every path to fairness is blocked by design.
00:01:12.240 Every single year, we lose between $20 and $28 billion in equalization payments.
00:01:19.220 That's about $6,000 per Albertan.
00:01:21.920 Or for an average family of four, that's $24,000.
00:01:25.980 your family gives away to Ottawa for no services in return.
00:01:30.980 But after all these things, they have not yet broken our spirit.