PJ The Belt - Alberta BREAKS From Canada？ - Update! INDEPENDENCE Vote in 2026 ｜ Government Panel Begins!

00:00:00.000 Ottawa continues or has ignored us and will continue to ignore us it doesn't

00:00:05.100 matter what we do here tonight or what the outcome of this is they will

00:00:08.940 continue to ignore us there's one question one question only that needs to

00:00:12.760 be on a referendum and that is do you support Alberta exiting Canadian

00:00:19.020 Confederation and becoming a sovereign nation at that point at that point then

00:00:24.780 you'll be able to negotiate with Ottawa then you'll be able to negotiate with

00:00:29.640 Quebec without that they will continue to ignore us if they do not know that we

00:00:34.780 are serious and we can leave at any point in time we will not ever get a

00:00:40.260 pipeline to the Atlantic Ocean did you hear that did you hear the energy behind

00:00:45.480 those comments and the applause that followed sounds like Albertans are done

00:00:49.980 being patient and are now serious about leaving Canada and gaining their

00:00:53.760 independence the video you watched this footage from the Alberta next panel

00:00:58.560 which started yesterday in the city of Red Deer the panel is basically a

00:01:02.880 listening tour chaired by premier Danielle Smith where she's making multiple stops

00:01:07.620 around the province to ask everyday Albertans what they believe is the next

00:01:11.760 step that their government should be taking when it comes to gaining more

00:01:15.220 independence and sovereignty from Ottawa topics like controlling and limiting

00:01:19.840 immigration locally creating our own police force pension plan and collecting

00:01:25.120 our own taxes seem to be the main focus of the meetings while the event was open

00:01:30.400 to all Albertans and there were certainly a number of people who opposed this

00:01:34.240 initiative sitting in the crowd the vast majority of those in attendance were

00:01:38.740 people in favor of Alberta independence one of the leaders of the Alberta

00:01:43.120 prosperity project Jeffrey Rath made some comments during the event and was met with

00:01:48.280 applause by the audience let's dive in very quickly though if you enjoy this

00:01:52.920 videos please do me a solid and subscribe it's free and you can always

00:01:56.720 unsubscribe later if you change your mind thank you and back to the video but go

00:02:01.600 ahead my name is Jeffrey Rath I'm from Foothills Alberta

00:02:06.600 so premier the first thing I wanted to say with the greatest of respect when you

00:02:11.720 say there's no legal mechanism to stop sending taxes to Ottawa and collecting 100% of

00:02:16.680 taxes in Alberta with the greatest respect you're incorrect the legal mechanism is

00:02:21.480 section 1 sub 3 of the clarity act and that's voting Alberta the hell out of

00:02:26.100 Canada on a clear question thank you Joe and then the last my last point on that is

00:02:32.580 simply on a moving forward basis I'd like to see a straw poll in this room and

00:02:37.020 that's one not do we want to spend another five or ten years bashing our heads

00:02:41.180 against an unamendable Constitution versus how many people in this room want a

00:02:45.120 clear vote on independence and within the next 12 months okay so thank you you

00:02:49.140 gotta give it to Jeff showing up at an event hosted by the premier herself and 0.98

00:02:53.160 making the exact same comments he's been making at every single one of the

00:02:57.420 dozens of rallies and town halls he's attended organized by the Alberta

00:03:01.440 prosperity project there was a 45 second time limit for all questions and

00:03:06.180 comments to make sure that everyone in attendance would have a chance to come

00:03:09.840 to the mic if they wanted to so that's likely why he will stop from commenting

00:03:14.580 further but honestly I think Jeff or any one of the leaders from the APP would

00:03:19.320 have loved to debate anybody on why Alberta would be better off becoming

00:03:23.460 independent from Canada I've commented before on the fact that he seems like the

00:03:28.200 premier is trying to play middle of the road when it comes to Alberta leaving

00:03:32.100 Canada she knows the majority of her base supports it but not everyone so while she's

00:03:37.740 doing certain things which are advancing the cost for independence she hasn't

00:03:42.600 straight up come out in support for it here's a couple more highlights from the

00:03:46.500 event last night so okay straw poll I guess the question is how many of you

00:03:53.220 support an Alberta pension plan over CPP how many of you support the current CPP okay well I

00:04:05.640 think we know who who the majority was miles course Seattle from Red Deer here if

00:04:12.720 Canada continues to bring in hundreds of thousands of immigrants every year and we

00:04:17.580 have little say in who these people are how can we talk about sovereignty when any

00:04:23.280 number of these people can come into our province at any time if we don't have

00:04:26.460 any control over our borders how can we consider ourselves sovereign as a province or as a nation

00:04:32.160 so thank you very much hey Dr Aiken or Samita whoever hits the mic first can you can you

00:04:40.080 communicate um how it's different than when you came so when I came with Amy's Dr Aiken I'm a I'm

00:04:48.660 a doctor I'm a family doctor and when I moved to I moved from England to work in rural Alberta in

00:04:53.940 Oyen I had a doctor that I'd been working for nine months straight and had a break so I said I'm gonna

00:04:59.280 jump in and come to rural Alberta with my family dragged my family my wife with three kids and we

00:05:04.740 came to rural Alberta and before we came in I had a I had a job there was a there was a you know they

00:05:10.500 made sure that there was nobody else applying for the job nobody else wanted to work there and I was

00:05:13.980 the only one brave enough to go work that place and I enjoyed the experience and that is you know

00:05:19.020 that is the beauty of of Alberta if you know it should work for both parties it should work for the

00:05:24.660 immigrant and the people that in that are native in Alberta and I think that balance is off now and

00:05:30.780 the feedback I've heard now is that you know in what I've noticed over I moved about 10 years ago

00:05:35.280 it's a massive change now that massive immigration is not actually the skill set that we're looking for

00:05:42.240 with very little control on the numbers and that is putting huge pressure on health service putting

00:05:47.940 huge pressure on education on schools on housing on cost of living and you know I'm so grateful I live in

00:05:53.520 Alberta with an awesome premier who's fighting the fight to make sure that Albertans are protected

00:05:58.200 from unregulated uncontrolled unverted immigration that's a solid question about immigration and a very

00:06:05.520 important one too over the last 10 years Canada has been bringing in unsustainable amounts of immigrants 1.00

00:06:11.940 especially from countries that often do not want to assimilate to the local culture bringing in over 1.00

00:06:18.120 2 million people per year when you add up new permanent residents so-called temporary workers and foreign

00:06:24.900 students to a country of only 37 million people as of 2015 which was insane that's more or less the

00:06:32.760 equivalent of the United States allowing in 17 to 20 million people every year and that's on top of

00:06:40.020 the illegal border crossers because you have to remember these are people that are coming in legally 0.51

00:06:45.740 Canada did this for 10 years straight under Justin Trudeau and now we're paying the consequences in

00:06:52.340 housing inflation our health care system the list goes on Alberta has been one of the most affected

00:06:59.020 regions of the country by this mass migration since our economy has been the most active in the country

00:07:04.640 people are flocking here to find employment it's been speculated that the feds have been purposefully

00:07:11.020 sending waves of immigrants to Saskatchewan and Alberta to change both the political landscape 1.00

00:07:16.480 and the culture and honestly I wouldn't put it past them it's good to see the example they use for

00:07:23.500 responsible immigration into Alberta a doctor who seems to respect the province and its culture moving

00:07:30.220 to an area where his service was needed a family man who was willing to integrate and contributes to our

00:07:36.080 system as opposed to a welfare case like most new immigrants these days bottom line is Alberta needs 1.00

00:07:42.840 to take control of its own immigration system by becoming an independent nation and that she's doing 0.99

00:07:49.040 this tour really across the province to get the opinions of what Albertans are feeling and thinking I

00:07:55.460 spoke with one political expert who said this panel is unique because the premier herself is sharing it

00:08:02.540 so clearly it's an important issue to her Marcia all right thanks for watching thank you for subscribing

00:08:08.440 special thanks to those of you who have donated to this project it is much appreciated and it helps

00:08:13.820 me continue making videos see you on the next one peace

PJ The Belt - July 17, 2025

Alberta BREAKS From Canada？ - Update! INDEPENDENCE Vote in 2026 ｜ Government Panel Begins!

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