PJ The Belt - June 19, 2025


Alberta INDEPENDENCE Deal： New Budget Reveals BILLIONS Gained by Ditching Canada in 2025


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The Alberta Prosperity Project has put out a Budget for what an independent Alberta will look like in the future. It lays out a detailed fiscal roadmap for the future of the province and lays out what it would look like if Alberta becomes independent.

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00:00:00.060 Hey everybody, PJ here. Hello from rainy central Alberta. We're getting a lot of rain out here
00:00:06.580 lately, which is welcome news, especially for farmers and those fighting the fires up north.
00:00:14.360 Alberta is not really that much of a rainy place, which is why forest fires oftentimes get out of
00:00:19.560 hand out here, but this is welcome news. I'm happy to see that. Today I'd like to talk about
00:00:25.380 the Alberta Prosperity Project. The Alberta Prosperity Project has put out what they call
00:00:31.880 the budget for what an independent Alberta will look like. Okay, so this is Jeffrey Rath
00:00:38.440 Substack. For those of you who don't know, Jeffrey Rath is one of the leaders of the Alberta Prosperity
00:00:44.820 Project, which is the not-for-profit organization leading, spearheading the effort to hold an
00:00:52.860 independence referendum for Alberta to separate and gain its independence from Canada. So recently
00:00:59.320 he wrote an article in a Substack, as you guys can see there, titled Alberta Independence Fiscal Plan,
00:01:07.000 the numbers Ottawa fears. The document Ottawa doesn't want you to read. So this was published
00:01:13.280 yesterday, June 18th, 2025. So it goes, Friends of Alberta, this is the one. For too long we've been
00:01:23.580 told that independence is a fantasy, that freedom costs too much, that Alberta can't afford to go
00:01:29.980 it alone. But now the numbers are in, and the math tells a very different story. The value of freedom
00:01:37.660 is the first fully-costed, detailed fiscal roadmap for an independent Alberta, backed by conservative
00:01:45.300 estimates, robust data, and decades of fiscal expertise, authored by respected doctors, economists,
00:01:53.880 and legal minds. This plan lays bare the financial truth Ottawa hopes you'll ignore.
00:01:59.660 What's inside? Alberta's net loss of $191 billion to Ottawa over just four years. That's incredible
00:02:10.020 when you read that. That just over four years, over the term of a prime minister or president,
00:02:17.760 Alberta has lost nearly $200 billion to Ottawa's taxes and Ottawa's regime. What could have we done
00:02:26.520 with our province and with our people? What sort of prosperity could have we enjoyed as citizens of
00:02:35.400 Alberta if Alberta didn't have the burden that is Canada? But anyways, I'll continue reading.
00:02:41.640 How we can fund our own nation with a surplus, a path to eliminate personal and corporate income tax,
00:02:48.260 even GST. Sign me up. A sovereign indigenous partnership built on respect, not federal dependency.
00:02:55.940 An independent Alberta could renegotiate a better deal for all indigenous Albertans,
00:03:03.240 for them to end up doing better, even.
00:03:08.620 Then it says, a realistic plan to transition policing, pensions, immigration, and defense with
00:03:15.940 surpluses left over. Yeah, that's what a country does. A country handles all of those things. It's not
00:03:22.160 like Canada's doing that great of a job. In fact, it's doing a terrible job. Immigration is out of 1.00
00:03:27.520 control. Our defense, our armed forces are weak, weaker than they've ever been. Policing, police can't
00:03:34.380 keep up with the amount of crimes we're having. So yeah, Alberta could possibly handle that much better 0.96
00:03:40.740 on its own. An environmental strategy focused on Alberta's own priorities, not globalist mandates.
00:03:48.820 That's music to my ears. Alberta's energy sector has been completely hindered by globalist policies 0.56
00:03:58.420 for the past 10 years and even before then, but especially the past 10 years have done terrible damage
00:04:05.620 to our petroleum industry, to our gas industry, petroleum and gas in general, and therefore construction
00:04:13.580 and all the other things that have to do with the energy industry. Then he further writes,
00:04:20.420 this isn't a manifesto. It's a spreadsheet with soul. A blueprint for independence, prosperity and
00:04:28.420 renewal. Even if the financial benefits were neutral, the appeal of independence and freedom to act is in
00:04:36.500 itself compelling. The Valley of Freedom page six. Why read it? Because you deserve more than recycled
00:04:44.340 headlines and fear tactics. You deserve the facts and you deserve the choice.
00:04:49.380 Yeah, there's been a lot of headlines, definitely a lot of fear tactics from those who oppose Alberta
00:04:57.380 independence. And this is only the beginning. You better believe that they're going to continue to
00:05:01.540 come up with things to scare people. They're going to use fear just like they did with the latest federal
00:05:08.500 campaign where they managed to win by scaring people into fearing, oh, Trump, orange men bad. 0.54
00:05:14.980 So reelect the people who've been in power for 10 years and have turned this country into the mess
00:05:20.980 that it is today. They're going to try to scare people away from supporting Alberta independence.
00:05:27.860 So he'll have the full report available soon. Last I heard, they had to redact that they had certain
00:05:35.780 things that needed to be modified. So it is not available as of the time of this video. So it says
00:05:42.100 here, if you believe in truth, not narratives. If you believe Alberta should chart its own course,
00:05:48.020 if you've ever asked, what if we just did it ourselves? Then read this document and share it with
00:05:54.020 everyone you know. This video here is from David Creighton's YouTube channel. And in it,
00:05:58.260 Jeff Rath explains the fiscal plan for an independent Alberta. He also talks about how
00:06:04.900 they were planning for a referendum to happen in later in 2025. But due to a slow process with
00:06:13.140 whole elections, Alberta and all of that, it's probably looking for some time in the spring of 2026.
00:06:18.740 We're now looking, you know, at the spring of 2026, which is what Danielle Smith was planning all
00:06:25.220 along. We were hoping to have a referendum this November, because for many of us, the sooner,
00:06:30.900 the better. You know, and again, you know, one of the things I want to touch on, and I think it's
00:06:35.780 what you were talking about earlier, I just want to, you know, I just want you to people to focus on
00:06:40.820 this. And I'm just going to read it out so that they can understand why it is that Alberta thinks that
00:06:45.300 it needs to lead Canada, right? The Prime Minister of Ontario and Quebec and the Maritimes, Mark Carney,
00:06:52.420 has stated in a book he wrote called Values, that Western society is morally rotten. It has been
00:06:59.060 corrupted by capitalism. This requires rigid controls of personal freedoms, industry, and corporate
00:07:06.260 funding. This is not a promise to make the lives of ordinary people better, but temporarily worse.
00:07:12.980 This will be a world of severely constrained choices, less flying, less meat, more inconvenience,
00:07:20.660 and temporarily more poverty. Assets will be stranded, gasoline cars will be unsellable,
00:07:27.620 and inefficient properties will be unrentable. That's what Mark Carney said in his book, Values,
00:07:34.020 building a better world for all.
00:07:36.100 That sounds like straight-up communism. Straight-up communism. That all comes from that book he wrote,
00:07:42.900 which I've mentioned on this channel before, Values, where he, it's how to make the world a
00:07:48.820 better place type of thing, but it's really just a part of that WF, World Economic Forum plan,
00:07:54.580 a plan where you'll own nothing but somehow be happy. They probably mean that you'll own nothing and you
00:08:01.300 better be happy because what other choice will you have?
00:08:03.940 From an Alberta perspective and from an Alberta Prosperity Project perspective and an Alberta
00:08:09.540 independence perspective, we do not believe that ordinary people should be made temporarily worse
00:08:18.020 off. What we believe in and why we're promoting an independent Alberta is that freedom has value.
00:08:25.140 We've provided a, we've drafted a document. It's a fully-costed business plan for an independent Alberta.
00:08:31.060 We called it the value of freedom to show Albertans how much better off they're going to be financially
00:08:39.700 the day that we separate from Canada. And this is all from government sources. This isn't,
00:08:45.780 these aren't projections, these aren't anything other than, you know, applying AI tools to existing
00:08:52.660 government data with regard to, you know, funding, finances, fiscal capacity, tax revenues generated by
00:09:02.500 the province of Alberta. The bottom line with regard to this business plan is that in year one,
00:09:09.780 after fully costing an apartment and paying for an apartment of external affairs, paying for an
00:09:15.140 apartment of immigration, paying for border control security services, taking over all of the work of
00:09:20.660 NAVCAT, building an Alberta armed forces, tripling the spend of on the Canada was putting into
00:09:28.820 indigenous communities from one and a half billion to four and a half to five billion through
00:09:35.300 constitutionalized resource revenue sharing, etc. So fully costed, first year, Alberta independent from
00:09:43.620 Canada, Alberta will have a 30 to 50 billion dollar fiscal capacity surplus. So you're talking about
00:09:52.580 covering all of the services that Canada, the federal government currently is supposed to cover.
00:10:00.100 You're talking about immigration enforcement, border protection, border patrol, whatever you call it,
00:10:06.580 passport offices, all of the federal services that are supposed to be provided to Alberta.
00:10:13.620 Alberta would be fully covered and Alberta would end up having a surplus. Currently, Alberta,
00:10:20.180 because of the equalization payments that were basically forced to have to send to have not
00:10:26.740 provinces, really parasitic freeloading provinces like Quebec and some in the Maritimes, Alberta
00:10:34.420 have been posting deficits deficits when we send between 15 and 20 billion dollars a year to other
00:10:44.340 provinces. We could have a surplus every single year if that money stayed right here in our province,
00:10:51.380 in an independent country, in an independent nation of Alberta, where we wouldn't have to be sending our
00:10:56.980 money somewhere else. So we would cover all of those services in a much better way and we would manage to
00:11:05.460 have surpluses. All right. Thanks for watching. Thank you for subscribing. Special thanks to those of you who
00:11:11.300 have donated to this project. It is much appreciated and it helps me continue making videos. See you on the next one. Peace.
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