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