PJ The Belt - November 27, 2025


Alberta Independence SURGES as Pipeline Bribe FAILS!


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102

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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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00:00:00.000 All right.
00:00:02.000 Thank you.
00:00:04.000 Good.
00:00:06.000 Good.
00:00:08.000 I'm not sure.
00:00:10.000 I lost art.
00:00:16.000 Do the top.
00:00:18.000 Is that how he does it?
00:00:20.000 It's interesting.
00:00:22.000 I think you got a little thumbs up.
00:00:24.000 He reads his signature still.
00:00:26.000 Yeah.
00:00:28.000 Do you want to stand him?
00:00:29.000 We always fight very hard for this province that we love so dearly and for its incredible people.
00:00:44.000 But Albertans are also proud and loyal Canadians.
00:00:47.000 But Albertans are also proud and loyal Canadians.
00:00:50.000 I am Alberta!
00:00:54.000 A few thousand people waved royal blue Alberta flags Saturday in front of the legislature,
00:00:59.000 declaring their province would be better off without Canada.
00:01:02.000 The Alberta Prosperity Project organized this rally.
00:01:05.000 A group that wants the referendum question,
00:01:07.000 Do you agree that the province of Alberta shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province in Canada?
00:01:14.000 I am Alberta!
00:01:17.000 How far are you willing to go?
00:01:20.000 Are you willing to say, we want these things or else?
00:01:26.000 At what stage would you, for example, invoke the Clarity Act as clarified by the Supreme Court?
00:01:34.000 For example, calling a referendum on the Clarity Act question of secession.
00:01:39.000 Do you have an or else in mind?
00:01:41.000 What is it and what would make you use it?
00:01:44.000 And if not, how are you serious?
00:01:46.000 And I'll start off with Danielle Smith on that one.
00:01:49.000 The or else is Dennis Modry and the Alberta Prosperity Project.
00:01:53.000 It's true.
00:01:56.000 And my follow up, do you think this MOU will be enough to distinguish,
00:02:05.000 quell any remaining separatist sentiment that may remain in Alberta?
00:02:08.000 I hope so.
00:02:09.000 I mean, I had always felt that the former government of Justin Trudeau created the independence movement.
00:02:16.000 And my first conversations with Prime Minister Mark Carney were that he could end it.
00:02:21.000 He could take the wind out of it.
00:02:23.000 Because we saw this once before, we saw that independence sentiment was very high in the early 1980s
00:02:28.000 when there was the national energy program.
00:02:30.000 But when Brian Mulroney came in and reversed that policy, it disappeared.
00:02:34.000 So I would say that good policy and genuinely addressing the concerns of Albertans
00:02:41.000 is always a pathway to have a good and solid relationship.
00:02:44.000 And I think the Prime Minister understands that, certainly based on this agreement it shows he does.
00:02:49.000 And so I'm hopeful.
00:02:53.000 Hi Premier, Ezra Levant from Rebel News.
00:03:10.000 The first deadline in the MOU, if I'm reading it right, is April,
00:03:16.000 where the duty is on Alberta to jack up carbon taxes.
00:03:21.000 And the last date in the MOU, if I'm reading it right, correct me if I'm not, is 2040.
00:03:27.000 That's when this pipeline, you know, that's sort of the end date.
00:03:31.000 It can't be any later than that.
00:03:33.000 In terms of building trust with the anti-oil liberals,
00:03:37.000 they're asking Alberta to raise carbon taxes now for a promise of an oil pipeline,
00:03:43.000 years or even more than a decade in the future.
00:03:46.000 Does that really build trust?
00:03:48.000 Well, you have to start somewhere.
00:03:50.000 And one thing I would say is that we did have the Supreme Court of Canada rule
00:03:56.000 on the federal government's ability to set a price on emissions.
00:04:01.000 So the Supreme Court has ruled on that.
00:04:03.000 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.
00:04:12.000 We've demonstrated, and I think the Prime Minister agrees, that's too high too fast.
00:04:18.000 So that's why we understand that there was always going to be a negotiation around that.
00:04:23.000 We froze the carbon tax at $95 pending consultation with the industry and greater work with the Prime Minister.
00:04:29.000 But remember, Alberta was the first to have an industrial carbon price.
00:04:33.000 They did in 2018.
00:04:34.000 We implemented that in 2007.
00:04:36.000 It's generated revenues that have allowed us to invest billions of dollars in new technologies, including carbon capture.
00:04:42.000 So there is a commitment on the part of the industry to have a carbon price.
00:04:46.000 And we did do some consultation on that.
00:04:48.000 We're just glad that we have the means to manage it our way in Alberta under our tier program.
00:04:54.000 And we'll see as of April 1st.
00:04:57.000 And no, that wasn't a joke.
00:04:58.000 April 1st is going to be the date that we have an agreement on that front.
00:05:04.000 When it comes to the building of a bitumen pipeline to Asian markets to the BC coast,
00:05:10.000 if you read the MOU, those two things have to happen in tandem.
00:05:13.000 That we have to see the Pathways project proceeding at the same time as an agreement to build that.
00:05:19.000 One is dependent on the other.
00:05:21.000 I don't know that the Prime Minister would have agreed to a new bitumen pipeline without Pathways,
00:05:24.000 and we wouldn't have agreed to Pathways without a new bitumen pipeline.
00:05:27.000 So they are going to be staged.
00:05:29.000 They are going to go on together.
00:05:31.000 We've already had a meeting with Pathways about how we're going to do that.
00:05:34.000 That will require a trilateral negotiation as well.
00:05:37.000 I mean, that's the thing about a peace deal.
00:05:39.000 You have to make it with an enemy.
00:05:40.000 So I suppose the fact that for a decade, his Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero,
00:05:46.000 it was about putting a capital strike on the oil and gas sector.
00:05:50.000 Just a couple of weeks ago, he was asked about pipelines.
00:05:54.000 He said, boring.
00:05:55.000 One of my questions was, is this pipeline going to come?
00:05:58.000 So boring.
00:05:59.000 It's not.
00:06:00.000 It is.
00:06:01.000 No, but it is.
00:06:02.000 It is.
00:06:03.000 So is there anything, I mean, after a lifetime of attacking the oil patch,
00:06:09.000 he was even interrogated by the US Congress for an attempt to capital strike their oil companies.
00:06:15.000 Is there anything the Prime Minister has said to you in private that you could share with us
00:06:22.000 that would signal that his lifetime's work will somehow be put to the side?
00:06:28.000 Like, I think he's just a slightly smarter version of Stephen Gilboa.
00:06:32.000 I think he hates the oil patch as his life's work.
00:06:36.000 Is there anything he's said to you that make you believe that maybe he has, he can be turned on that?
00:06:43.000 Well, I'll start by saying my joke has been that I would love for pipelines to be boring again.
00:06:47.000 It's actually quite remarkable that we're talking about expanding uranium mines,
00:06:52.000 building nuclear power plants, building new transmission lines through pristine areas,
00:06:57.000 massive new mining projects, and not one of them has raised any ire on the part of any environmental group
00:07:03.000 or anyone in the media, but there has been all of this ire raised around a pipeline.
00:07:09.000 And so I have to just give the Prime Minister credit for perhaps he's recalibrating his own thinking on this.
00:07:17.000 It certainly seems to be in the agreement that we signed, but we will trust, but we will verify.
00:07:22.000 We will make sure that he lives up to the commitments in this agreement that we had.
00:07:27.000 You can do all of that and then you can walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:07:32.000 You can do all of that and then move Alberta closer towards independence.
00:07:36.000 Even if you believe that Alberta should be independent within Canada,
00:07:41.000 then make us independent while we're in Canada.
00:07:44.000 I already mentioned how you can do that. Why isn't she doing it? 0.60
00:07:48.000 Again, I don't judge based on maybe this is what she's doing.
00:07:52.000 Maybe this is her angle. Maybe this, maybe that. No, what is she actually doing?
00:07:58.000 And we don't have our own police yet.
00:08:00.000 She announced that we would start kind of move faster. Okay.
00:08:05.000 The degradation and decay of Canada is going very quickly.
00:08:10.000 Alberta should be moving quickly as well.
00:08:12.000 Get our pension in there. Collect our own taxes.
00:08:16.000 This is my opinion. I came to that conclusion based on her behavior, based on her actions.
00:08:21.000 I may be right. I may be wrong. What say you?
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00:08:38.000 I'll see you in the next episode. Cheers.
00:08:51.000 I'll see you in the next episode.