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.
00:00:19.680We say hello to our neighbors and to strangers, too.
00:00:23.860We know everything that matters starts with a home and a family.
00:00:30.000Canada 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.
00:01:00.340And it was in 98, as you know, is arising from the Quebec referendum succession movement.
00:01:05.720And so the Supreme Court of Canada has laid out a legal pathway for a province to vote to declare itself to be independent.
00:01:12.940And then the steps that are necessary to complete the process of that province becoming its own country.
00:01:18.680And 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.
00:01:48.680And so the U.S. Constitution is the U.S. Constitution is the best one, but it is not by any means perfect.
00:01:56.240So here's what I would like to see, ideally, in my in my in my in my blue sky moments.
00:02:01.260I would love to see Alberta say, let's take the best one, which is the American one.
00:02:15.760And so that Alberta now has the best constitutional architecture going.
00:02:21.820I mean, Alberta, Alberta could save Western civilization.
00:02:26.840Alberta 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.
00:02:44.220You 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.
00:03:03.740So that our our oil and gas companies aren't being choked into non profitability by carbon taxes.
00:03:10.840You'll levied on them every time they have to flare gas off of an oil well.
00:03:14.560All of those things are going to stop.
00:03:16.560And 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.
00:03:25.740Who 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?
00:03:37.100Well, 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.
00:03:56.120But also because we see in Alberta the potential to fix the country, right?
00:04:00.320If Alberta disrupts the country and if it chose to separate, especially if it chose to join the United States, it would definitely do that.
00:04:07.960And the other provinces, the people in those provinces would start to think, well, don't leave us here behind.