Alberta Independence SURGES as Pipeline Bribe FAILS!
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Summary
A few thousand people waved royal blue Alberta flags Saturday in front of the legislature declaring their province would be better off without Canada. The Alberta Prosperity Project organized this rally, a group that wants the province of Alberta to become a sovereign country and cease to be a province in Canada.
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We always fight very hard for this province that we love so dearly and for its incredible people.
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But Albertans are also proud and loyal Canadians.
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But Albertans are also proud and loyal Canadians.
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A few thousand people waved royal blue Alberta flags Saturday in front of the legislature,
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declaring their province would be better off without Canada.
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The Alberta Prosperity Project organized this rally.
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Do you agree that the province of Alberta shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province in Canada?
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Are you willing to say, we want these things or else?
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At what stage would you, for example, invoke the Clarity Act as clarified by the Supreme Court?
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For example, calling a referendum on the Clarity Act question of secession.
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And I'll start off with Danielle Smith on that one.
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The or else is Dennis Modry and the Alberta Prosperity Project.
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And my follow up, do you think this MOU will be enough to distinguish,
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quell any remaining separatist sentiment that may remain in Alberta?
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I mean, I had always felt that the former government of Justin Trudeau created the independence movement.
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And my first conversations with Prime Minister Mark Carney were that he could end it.
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Because we saw this once before, we saw that independence sentiment was very high in the early 1980s
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But when Brian Mulroney came in and reversed that policy, it disappeared.
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So I would say that good policy and genuinely addressing the concerns of Albertans
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is always a pathway to have a good and solid relationship.
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And I think the Prime Minister understands that, certainly based on this agreement it shows he does.
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The first deadline in the MOU, if I'm reading it right, is April,
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where the duty is on Alberta to jack up carbon taxes.
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And the last date in the MOU, if I'm reading it right, correct me if I'm not, is 2040.
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That's when this pipeline, you know, that's sort of the end date.
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In terms of building trust with the anti-oil liberals,
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they're asking Alberta to raise carbon taxes now for a promise of an oil pipeline,
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years or even more than a decade in the future.
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And one thing I would say is that we did have the Supreme Court of Canada rule
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on the federal government's ability to set a price on emissions.
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It's part of the reason why we negotiated a stringency agreement that would have seen the carbon tax price go up to $170 a barrel by 2030.
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We've demonstrated, and I think the Prime Minister agrees, that's too high too fast.
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So that's why we understand that there was always going to be a negotiation around that.
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We froze the carbon tax at $95 pending consultation with the industry and greater work with the Prime Minister.
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But remember, Alberta was the first to have an industrial carbon price.
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It's generated revenues that have allowed us to invest billions of dollars in new technologies, including carbon capture.
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So there is a commitment on the part of the industry to have a carbon price.
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We're just glad that we have the means to manage it our way in Alberta under our tier program.
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April 1st is going to be the date that we have an agreement on that front.
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When it comes to the building of a bitumen pipeline to Asian markets to the BC coast,
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if you read the MOU, those two things have to happen in tandem.
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That we have to see the Pathways project proceeding at the same time as an agreement to build that.
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I don't know that the Prime Minister would have agreed to a new bitumen pipeline without Pathways,
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and we wouldn't have agreed to Pathways without a new bitumen pipeline.
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We've already had a meeting with Pathways about how we're going to do that.
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That will require a trilateral negotiation as well.
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So I suppose the fact that for a decade, his Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero,
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it was about putting a capital strike on the oil and gas sector.
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Just a couple of weeks ago, he was asked about pipelines.
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One of my questions was, is this pipeline going to come?
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So is there anything, I mean, after a lifetime of attacking the oil patch,
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he was even interrogated by the US Congress for an attempt to capital strike their oil companies.
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Is there anything the Prime Minister has said to you in private that you could share with us
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that would signal that his lifetime's work will somehow be put to the side?
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Like, I think he's just a slightly smarter version of Stephen Gilboa.
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I think he hates the oil patch as his life's work.
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Is there anything he's said to you that make you believe that maybe he has, he can be turned on that?
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Well, I'll start by saying my joke has been that I would love for pipelines to be boring again.
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It's actually quite remarkable that we're talking about expanding uranium mines,
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building nuclear power plants, building new transmission lines through pristine areas,
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massive new mining projects, and not one of them has raised any ire on the part of any environmental group
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or anyone in the media, but there has been all of this ire raised around a pipeline.
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And so I have to just give the Prime Minister credit for perhaps he's recalibrating his own thinking on this.
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It certainly seems to be in the agreement that we signed, but we will trust, but we will verify.
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We will make sure that he lives up to the commitments in this agreement that we had.
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You can do all of that and then you can walk and chew gum at the same time.
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You can do all of that and then move Alberta closer towards independence.
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Even if you believe that Alberta should be independent within Canada,
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then make us independent while we're in Canada.
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I already mentioned how you can do that. Why isn't she doing it?
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Again, I don't judge based on maybe this is what she's doing.
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Maybe this is her angle. Maybe this, maybe that. No, what is she actually doing?
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She announced that we would start kind of move faster. Okay.
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The degradation and decay of Canada is going very quickly.
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Get our pension in there. Collect our own taxes.
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This is my opinion. I came to that conclusion based on her behavior, based on her actions.
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