PJ The Belt - April 08, 2026


Alberta Just Secured a Deal DIRECTLY With Trump - Canada is Irrelevant

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Danielle Smith Wild West David Eby Brookfield Carney
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In this episode, we talk about Alberta's new deal with the U.S. and what it means for the future of energy exports in Canada. We also talk about the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the West Coast, and why it's important for Alberta to have direct pipeline access south of the border.

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00:00:00.000 It looks like Premier Danielle Smith is going to be negotiating directly with the Americans in both Washington state as well as Oregon.
00:00:07.880 Good on her.
00:00:09.900 If Alberta wanted us to build a pipeline to the West Coast because they said, hey, we want, you know, we've got another two million barrels of oil per day that we want to ship to Asia and Japan.
00:00:22.080 I would think that we'd be very open to having that discussion.
00:00:24.880 For some reason, the federal government isn't prepared to make the changes.
00:00:28.620 um i i have to say the the americans are still very interested valuable um a bitumen pipeline
00:00:34.920 would be we'd be talking about a million barrels a day and all of alberta's energy resources oil
00:00:40.560 gas bitumen all of our agricultural products are exempt from tariffs and and that's what we've got
00:00:45.800 to be working towards okay so it looks like alberta's finally fed up of having to deal with
00:00:50.300 the liberal government in canada as well as the woke crazy government out in british columbia
00:00:55.000 that won't let us export our resources and our oil and gas.
00:00:58.960 And they're saying, you know what?
00:01:00.220 You won't play ball, and we're just going to bypass you altogether.
00:01:03.580 We can't export out of British Columbia.
00:01:05.460 Then we'll just go south, and we'll do to you what Saskatchewan did with the potash.
00:01:09.900 You wanted the whole potash export terminal out of Vancouver.
00:01:13.500 British Columbia ain't going to happen.
00:01:15.400 We're going to export out of Washington state instead.
00:01:18.540 Because if you don't want our energy and you don't want those jobs
00:01:21.260 that our energy would produce in your province,
00:01:23.240 then we're just gonna we're just gonna move on and it looks like premier danielle smith is going
00:01:28.200 to be negotiating directly with the americans in both washington state as well as oregon good on
00:01:34.520 her okay so we got an article from the western standard alberta-based newspaper bridger's
00:01:40.840 proposed pipeline could reshape canadian oil exports to u.s refineries this is an article
00:01:47.160 As of today, Calgary, a proposed pipeline to move Canadian, I would say, Albertan oil into the United States, is taking shape with a significantly larger capacity than first advertised, as developers look to expand export options and tap into growing demands south of the border.
00:02:06.600 bridger pipelines project would cost roughly two billion dollars and eventually carry more than
00:02:12.340 one million barrels of oil per day from the u.s canada border to wyoming initial plans filed
00:02:19.860 in january with montana regulators outlined a smaller system capable of transporting about
00:02:25.200 550 000 barrels per day of crude from near the border in phillips county through eastern montana
00:02:32.720 and into Wyoming. But updated filings submitted in late March show a much more ambitious proposal.
00:02:40.200 The 36-inch pipeline would stretch nearly 650 miles, about 1,050 kilometers, and ultimately
00:02:47.560 handle up to 1.13 million barrels per day, though it is expected to begin operations at roughly half
00:02:55.660 that level. The bulk of construction would take place in Montana, where about 435 miles of
00:03:01.820 pipeline would be installed at a project cost of $1.96 billion. Developers say the route would
00:03:10.180 largely follow existing pipeline corridors to limit environmental disruption and new land use.
00:03:17.100 And the reason why this is incredibly important is because it is much easier for Alberta to
00:03:23.100 deal with the United States in every sense of the word. It's just factually easier for Alberta
00:03:30.180 to deal with americans when it comes to energy this is a map of north america here at the top
00:03:35.720 you got canada at least the lower provinces and then you have the u.s here here's a pattern that
00:03:41.360 you can immediately notice most pipelines actually all pipelines that are coming out of alberta
00:03:48.840 got oil and gas pipelines go south except for one all of them except for one go south of the border
00:03:56.560 The only one is the most recently built Trans Mountain, which goes to the ports out in Vancouver area.
00:04:03.480 But all of the other pipelines, they go southeast into Saskatchewan and then Manitoba, and then they go south.
00:04:10.960 Some of them directly south from Alberta.
00:04:14.300 Why? Because it's much easier.
00:04:16.200 Even under Democrat governments, it's still easier to deal with the Americans than it is to deal with the rest of Canada.
00:04:23.220 Now, you think in a country with the third largest oil reserves in the world, which Canada is, thanks to Alberta, you think that there'd be pipelines this way, more than one, there'd be some to the north, to the Arctic, and there'd be at least one or two to the east.
00:04:39.300 but literally in order for the east end of canada ontario quebec and all that to get oil resources
00:04:46.420 it has to go south into the u.s and then come back up into the east uh the east part of canada
00:04:53.900 into eastern canada so you don't have direct pipelines and why is that because canada has
00:05:00.900 blocked it time and time again time and time again alberta has pushed for pipelines so that
00:05:05.760 the country is more self-dependent, it never happens. That's yet another reason why Alberta
00:05:10.760 is looking for more sovereignty and more independence. Gas prices here are spiking
00:05:14.940 because of the war in Iran. What are you doing to fix that? And especially considering that the
00:05:21.680 largest oil refinery in our country is in New Brunswick. Is it time for the west to east pipeline?
00:05:27.740 Your question about energy, I'm going to broaden it to a question of energy infrastructure.
00:05:32.460 So whether it's necessarily the east-west pipeline, or more broadly, building out more rapidly our considerable energy assets here.
00:05:44.780 We're in Nova Scotia. I'll be meeting with the Premier tomorrow.
00:05:48.220 One of the things we'll talk about is Wind West.
00:05:50.960 You know, a huge opportunity here to get renewable power, cheap power that we'll build out.
00:05:57.380 We also have opportunities on the east coast in conventional energy.
00:06:02.460 which we'll be exploring to build that out and across this country.
00:06:07.380 And I'll make one last point.
00:06:08.520 I'm sorry we've gone on too long.
00:06:09.960 But there will be opportunities in some of these cases
00:06:14.620 where it will be defense-related to build out
00:06:19.360 and to unlock some of these opportunities.
00:06:21.360 Alberta, as opposed to the majority of the elbows-up crowd,
00:06:25.140 the dog Fords, the Premier of Ontario,
00:06:28.520 who had the brilliant idea to run an attack ad
00:06:32.980 against the country that you're trying to negotiate with
00:06:35.920 and like 90% of your industries heavily depend on.
00:06:39.660 Genius he is, not.
00:06:41.740 And then you have British Columbia, 0.97
00:06:43.220 the green, crazy, woke, liberal guy, 0.92
00:06:47.400 David Eby out in British Columbia 0.91
00:06:48.980 who was trying to do the exact same thing
00:06:50.980 until Carney told him,
00:06:52.280 hey, you guys are literally gonna destroy the economy
00:06:55.040 and I'm trying to run my grift here for Brookfield.
00:06:58.020 So please don't run any ads. In all this madness, in all this craziness, Alberta and Saskatchewan have been the two adults in the room actually working diplomacy for a change, making diplomacy the priority, realizing that the United States is not only our closest ally, but our biggest trading partner, second to none.
00:07:21.580 This is what the map would look like. So the Alberta here, the energy, the energy powerhouse of North America, you got it right here. It will go down here, go through northwestern Montana, because that's near Glacier National Park, then north Idaho, and then entering, I guess, tweening in Washington to go south towards Oregon and into Washington ports as well.
00:07:48.500 and then towards the Pacific Asian markets.
00:07:52.300 This is what the Premier of Alberta, Daniel Smith,
00:07:54.640 had to say today in regards to the pipeline project.
00:07:57.800 Bridger's Pipeline's proposed project
00:07:59.680 for a new Canada-U.S. crude oil pipeline
00:08:02.420 could transport more than 1 million barrels per day
00:08:05.040 at a time of global uncertainty.
00:08:07.960 It's clear that Alberta is the answer
00:08:09.880 to North America's and the world's energy needs.
00:08:13.680 That's why we must build new pipelines
00:08:15.500 east, west, north, and south
00:08:18.020 to strengthen Canada's economy, establish North American energy dominance and position ourselves
00:08:24.660 as the world's safest, most secure and reliable energy partner. You really can't blame Alberta.
00:08:31.860 The province is just getting tired and Danielle Smith is acting accordingly. She's acting like
00:08:37.760 a premier who realizes, you know what? My people are just done. They're just done with dealing
00:08:42.100 with a country that is not acting like we're a part of it. So if you guys are going to act
00:08:47.200 unilaterally and you're going to reject our progress, then we're going to find ways to
00:08:51.520 negotiate directly with the Americans and get our products to market. And the Americans are loving
00:08:57.100 it. They love Alberta south of the border. So it's a win-win. If you enjoyed this video, hit the like
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