PJ The Belt - June 18, 2025


Alberta INDEPENDENCE Update! - Legal Roadmap, USA Constitution & Exit Vote from Canada


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

136.14775

Word Count

774

Sentence Count

60


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In this episode, I talk about why I support Alberta declaring independence from Canada and why you should too. I also talk about the economic and political benefits that come with being an independent province and why I think it s time for Alberta to become its own country.

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00:00:00.880 Alberta. We're wild and tough and beautiful, maybe even a little stubborn.
00:00:09.140 We agree that good enough isn't good enough.
00:00:13.400 We grab the bull by the horns.
00:00:16.660 We're for small towns and big cities.
00:00:19.680 We say hello to our neighbors and to strangers, too.
00:00:23.860 We know everything that matters starts with a home and a family.
00:00:30.000 Canada is an anomaly for a modern democracy in that other countries do not put into their constitutional framework a process for a region of the country, province of the country, or state of the country to leave, to declare independence.
00:00:57.800 They don't do that. Canada has.
00:01:00.340 And it was in 98, as you know, is arising from the Quebec referendum succession movement.
00:01:05.720 And so the Supreme Court of Canada has laid out a legal pathway for a province to vote to declare itself to be independent.
00:01:12.940 And then the steps that are necessary to complete the process of that province becoming its own country.
00:01:18.680 And what's also unusual from an international norms perspective, from an Alberta perspective or Canadian perspective, is Alberta is the only province that has put in every step of the way legislation, right from the Citizen Initiative Act, to allow citizens to petition the Alberta government to hold a referendum and referendum legislation to allow the referendum on independence to be held.
00:01:48.680 And so the U.S. Constitution is the U.S. Constitution is the best one, but it is not by any means perfect.
00:01:56.240 So here's what I would like to see, ideally, in my in my in my in my blue sky moments.
00:02:01.260 I would love to see Alberta say, let's take the best one, which is the American one.
00:02:06.200 We'll start with that.
00:02:08.160 We'll take its best features.
00:02:10.980 And then we'll leave the rest behind.
00:02:13.460 We'll fix it so that it is better.
00:02:15.760 And so that Alberta now has the best constitutional architecture going.
00:02:21.820 I mean, Alberta, Alberta could save Western civilization.
00:02:26.840 Alberta has the chance to be another America, the 21st century America, to start again and see and show how this should now be done to to to to promote and to to prosper in a Western civilization.
00:02:44.220 You turn down no more federal income tax, no more corporate tax, having a flat 10 percent Alberta income tax rate, a flat 10 percent Alberta corporate tax rate, no more GST, no more carbon tax on any of our industries.
00:03:03.740 So that our our oil and gas companies aren't being choked into non profitability by carbon taxes.
00:03:10.840 You'll levied on them every time they have to flare gas off of an oil well.
00:03:14.560 All of those things are going to stop.
00:03:16.560 And on top of it, freed from federal regulation and federal taxation, we see corporate headquarters flooding in Alberta because we'll be the lowest tax regime in North America.
00:03:25.740 Who wouldn't want to locate their corporate headquarters in Edmonton or Calgary with a flat 10 percent corporate tax rate and a flat 10 percent income tax rate for all of your senior executives and employees?
00:03:37.100 Well, the other well, one of the other reasons that a lot of us who are not in Alberta are rooting for Alberta to do this is partly because we recognize that Alberta has had been given a raw deal over time.
00:03:56.120 But also because we see in Alberta the potential to fix the country, right?
00:04:00.320 If Alberta disrupts the country and if it chose to separate, especially if it chose to join the United States, it would definitely do that.
00:04:07.960 And the other provinces, the people in those provinces would start to think, well, don't leave us here behind.
00:04:12.980 We want we want to come to.
00:04:14.540 They'll either move to Alberta or quite possibly the provinces themselves will say, you know, us too.
00:04:19.560 And again, who knows how that will actually happen?
00:04:22.640 But but Alberta could be the first domino in a cascade that that fundamentally changes the country.
00:04:29.340 And that's what we need.
00:04:36.280 Ottawa.
00:04:38.280 They don't listen.
00:04:40.800 Never have 600 bucks in carbon taxes just to run my tractor this week.
00:04:46.220 That's not sustainable.
00:04:47.580 These prices are insane.
00:04:50.620 And then they tax us again for fuel to stock the shelves.
00:04:54.080 We're the only place in the world with this much wealth that needs permission to use it.
00:05:00.000 We drill the ground.
00:05:01.140 They drain our pockets.
00:05:02.640 Not anymore.
00:05:04.560 They talk reconciliation, then block indigenous resource projects.
00:05:08.820 That's not justice.
00:05:10.400 That's control.
00:05:11.780 Time to lead.
00:05:12.760 Alberta first.
00:05:13.820 I support Alberta independence.
00:05:15.680 I support Alberta independence.
00:05:18.080 I support Alberta independence.
00:05:20.720 It's free and it helps me continue making videos.
00:05:40.180 See you on the next one.