PJ The Belt - Alberta LEAVES, Canada Becomes 3rd World Country! - TRUMP & 2026 INDEPENDENCE Vote!

00:00:00.000 people think that it's ontario holding canada together no it's it's alberta's money if alberta

00:00:05.760 takes the amount of money that it sends to other provinces as a bribe including quebec this country

00:00:12.960 falls apart hey everybody it's pj oh this one's big i sat down with the crew at faith the nation

00:00:24.480 last night to talk straight about alberta's path to independence from ditching ottawa and the rest

00:00:29.200 of canada to the real talk about the possibility of becoming the 51st american state you're going

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00:00:40.160 you i'll leave the full conversation in the link below you can check it out on the faith the nation

00:00:45.200 youtube channel let's get into the video when we've had 10 years where every single metric canada has

00:00:51.760 just gotten worse crime is higher groceries are more expensive you cannot afford a house immigration is 1.00

00:00:59.040 out of control and these people somehow convinced convinced you that a president from a completely

00:01:04.960 different country is to blame for all those issues that the liberals created it's insane wow yeah no the

00:01:11.840 way you put it i mean that's that's exactly you know that's definitely some you know the way to put it but

00:01:18.000 uh from i guess from uh from our side the way i'm looking at it because i you know i've been hearing

00:01:25.200 a little bit about the alberta separation even before you know the uh the canadian elections and it was

00:01:32.400 it was kind of my understanding that if canada had elected you know pierre pauliev and went the

00:01:40.640 conservative route then perhaps would it have been a little bit harder for alberta to

00:01:50.320 to be able to get referendum in other words electing mark carney didn't that really like propel

00:01:58.560 even more uh this movement for alberta separation so technically having carney in office doesn't that

00:02:05.360 work better for uh for the movement yeah honestly central canada kind of did us a favor on that one

00:02:12.400 that's the other angle on that obviously it's a bitter bittersweet thing to realize because

00:02:18.080 that definitely the liberals winning after the terrible 10 years we've had has put a fire

00:02:23.520 under albertans that we haven't had before we have we've never the premier herself will say danielle

00:02:29.920 smith that she's never seen support for alberta sovereignty in the mid-30s ever alberta's premier

00:02:37.120 says the desire to separate from canada has never been higher in this province i will say again that the

00:02:43.840 separatist sentiment was created by ottawa by policies that targeted our industry that chased

00:02:50.160 away investment and that are still in place today i take that seriously and i i hope that the federal

00:02:55.360 government takes that seriously and now there's some polls showing as high as mid 40s like this is a

00:03:01.760 very real situation in alberta that's brewing and there's a lot of people that are getting very

00:03:07.600 organized including like i said before the alberta prosperity project pierre winning i think would

00:03:14.480 have it would have toned down the temperature in alberta because he would have thrown on

00:03:19.760 thrown some things at us kind of like um stephen harper did not sure if you know who who that was

00:03:25.520 that was the last uh conservative prime minister here in canada he was a conservative and the alberta

00:03:32.240 independence movement wasn't nearly as high because he was pro energy uh he wasn't as pro energy as he

00:03:38.480 could have been um but he would placate the whole situation by giving alberta certain things certain

00:03:45.280 concessions that albertans wanted and and the economy was doing well and and life was you know

00:03:50.880 affordable here so we didn't have the need to go after independence as much as we do like a lot of

00:03:58.160 people this is for them is cents and dollars like they realize that alberta would be much better off

00:04:04.080 and that we've been taking advantage for way too long uh you mentioned danielle smith uh who is like 0.81

00:04:10.000 you're basically like you know alberta's governor that you know and just speaking in you know us terms

00:04:15.920 uh but she's the premier of alberta um what side do you think she's taking here because i've seen it 0.97

00:04:23.280 that she's kind of playing the middle road here she doesn't want to be too pro uh alberta independence

00:04:29.280 movement um and then she's also trying to talk about like uh having a free and you know independent

00:04:38.400 alberta within canada or or i can't remember the wording that she used uh where do you think she 0.58

00:04:43.760 actually stands in all of this yeah in the independence movement at least as far as i can tell i i try to stay

00:04:51.680 in touch with that movement as much as i can because that is really at this point politically

00:04:56.800 all i care about i just want to see alberta become independent from canada i think that's the best

00:05:00.560 thing that can happen to this to this province in this part of the world for the west to free itself

00:05:06.160 i think she's been playing the middle i think that's a decent uh decently accurate characterization

00:05:11.360 of what she's doing certain people within the alberta independence movement think that she's doing

00:05:16.960 the right thing she's trying to keep this grassroots you know keep it a volunteer movement a movement of

00:05:24.240 the people she doesn't want to politicize it others are saying that she's not brave enough that she could

00:05:29.280 take she could take more percussions she could install a firewall is what people call it here like like bring

00:05:37.120 our pensions here from ottawa you know alberta police like ontario and quebec have their own provincial

00:05:43.440 police get the rcmp which is our federal police get them out of here and bring an alberta police which

00:05:48.960 she has moved towards that but she could do it like immediately through a mandate because she's got a 0.99

00:05:53.840 majority government she could do many more things other people say that well she could do a lot less 1.00

00:06:00.080 she did just lower the threshold to make a referendum actually attainable and she's also bringing our

00:06:07.680 our our difficulties with ottawa she's bringing it to the to the spotlight by talking about it as much

00:06:14.720 as she can so just play in the middle i would say um as far as like an independent alberta uh let's say 1.00

00:06:22.320 you know the referendum happens and alberta gains their independence uh what does an independent alberta look

00:06:29.520 like economically uh what are some of the things that alberta is going to be able to strive on by

00:06:35.920 separating from canada and what are they going to be able to provide uh north america and even the

00:06:41.680 world as an independent alberta that's a really good question economically there is a document that

00:06:49.680 the leaders of the alberta prosperity project produced i appreciate the app because again they

00:06:56.880 are the most legitimate movement in alberta promoting independence and they created a fiscal uh budget

00:07:05.920 basically would be budget of what an independent alberta would look like removing ottawa from our

00:07:12.320 finances and it looks pretty damn good it's what i was telling you before for a lot of people this is

00:07:19.040 cents and dollars and they realize that alberta would simply just be fiscally better in every way

00:07:24.960 possible when you speak about the economy are we would be able to negotiate from a strong position

00:07:33.600 from a position of sovereignty we would negotiate with canada and the united states as an independent

00:07:38.880 nation and people say well you'd be a landlocked nation well okay aren't there any landlocked nations

00:07:44.800 that are successful i can think of two or three really quickly and you have switzerland you have

00:07:50.480 austria you have hungary all of these nations are landlocked and they have really good economies

00:07:56.240 when you have a province like alberta that is blocked at every single every single thing that it

00:08:01.120 tries to do to advance this economy it's blocked by bureaucracy by the federal government by other

00:08:07.280 provinces that are left-leaning like british columbia how is it different uh from being a landlocked

00:08:14.400 country if we're already a landlocked province if that makes sense so but if we were a country we at

00:08:20.400 least can negotiate by ourselves we don't have to get the federal government who already don't want to see

00:08:26.960 us prosper and don't want to see us get ahead negotiating for us we could also negotiate

00:08:33.440 directly with the united states which that's another point right there yeah that was going to be my next

00:08:39.520 um um i guess follow-up question is you know that's where the united states comes in because surely

00:08:45.600 uh with the the rich uh land that alberta has with its uh oil reserves and uh you know everything that

00:08:54.240 alberta offers you you better darn well know that donald trump is going to be like you know he's

00:09:01.120 going to be licking his lips and be like man i i know we can make a deal right we can help you guys

00:09:06.800 out you guys can help us and uh and so the landlock issue i think is really just uh an argument from

00:09:13.520 silence it's not even going to be an issue um for alberta because uh because again i mean there's going to

00:09:20.320 be other means uh to be able to negotiate with the united states and that'll open up you know east and

00:09:25.840 west coast uh right there if if alberta does nothing else but become its own independent nation uh and

00:09:32.080 that's assuming that saskatchewan and and the other provinces don't you know immediately follow uh to

00:09:38.560 join uh that's the other thing too is and we'll we'll get into a little bit of the 51st state thing

00:09:45.040 in a little bit but i want to focus a little bit more on canada per se if alberta does wind up

00:09:54.320 getting the referendum and declaring being able to declare independence by the will of the people

00:10:00.880 uh who what do you think is going to happen with the rest of western canada the rest of western

00:10:08.640 canada obviously this is all hypothetical because we don't know we'll see we'll see what happens in

00:10:13.600 spring of 2026 when the official referendum comes in and and we vote vote our way out of this mess

00:10:19.920 that is today's canada western canada specifically saskatchewan is very closely aligned with alberta

00:10:28.160 it's like its little brother or little sibling so if alberta left i think it'd be a domino effect

00:10:34.960 i don't know about manitoba because they're a bit more left-leaning over there although

00:10:39.360 rural manitoba is very conservative but winnipeg controls everything the capital basically

00:10:45.520 and then british columbia is very um very leftist to the vancouver area and the lower mainland

00:10:52.320 but what i can tell you right now is that if alberta separated the pressure for saskatchewan to

00:10:58.560 follow suit either join alberta in whatever alberta has become whether an independent nation or

00:11:04.720 part of the united states which is also being talked about i think saskatchewan would want to

00:11:10.320 follow it would be a domino effect there what happens with british colombia and manitoba that's

00:11:15.600 a little bit trickier especially with british colombia bc because it's in the coast and all of

00:11:21.360 that they might even try to just separate from canada themselves and be their own country as well

00:11:26.240 it will open a pandora box for sure or a can of worms like all hell will break loose because

00:11:32.960 people think that it's ontario holding canada together no it's it's alberta's money if alberta

00:11:38.640 takes the amount of money that it sends to other provinces as a bribe including quebec this country

00:11:45.840 falls apart so talk a little bit about that um there's in canada uh there's like subsidies

00:11:52.720 or i mean help me out a little bit obviously it's you know uh you're just my neighbor to the north

00:11:57.520 and i'm not too in tune and i'm trying to be but um within canada there's some kind of like subsidies

00:12:05.120 that each province pays to ottawa um and i think they call them let me out here equalization payments

00:12:15.200 yeah so tell us a little bit how that works how alberta's uh involved in that and what that looks 1.00

00:12:20.800 like for an albertan and uh yeah tell us about that yeah man it's the soviet socialist dream just north

00:12:28.480 of the 49th parallel guys uh we you have what they call have not provinces which are the biggest culprit

00:12:37.760 of all of these is quebec you know the frenchies out east that we albertans have really no love lost

00:12:44.800 for uh it's it's like a rivalry there um they canada what what they do is that they give they

00:12:53.280 take money from those provinces like alberta that are have a higher gdp production and then they

00:12:59.600 redistribute it equalization to equalize make things equal and keep the same standard of living

00:13:06.480 all over the country and on paper that sounds great but you know that the thing with socialism

00:13:12.320 right like at some point you run out of other people's money right to add insult to injury

00:13:18.480 for alberta specifically is the fact that those same provinces that are the biggest recipients of

00:13:24.880 funds coming from alberta and its energy industry are the biggest opponents and the most pronounced

00:13:31.600 opponents of the development of said industry that is the the irony that i i don't tire from talking

00:13:39.600 about every single day on my channel is the fact that quebec takes to the tune of 15 billion dollars

00:13:45.760 from alberta in equalization payments every year so you imagine a pipeline but of cash little literally

00:13:53.680 cash billions of dollars from alberta to quebec every single year but they will not allow

00:14:00.800 even a liquefied natural gas pipeline from alberta through quebec to the east coast

00:14:07.760 for us to continue to produce that money that they so enjoy to pay for their socialist programs

00:14:13.520 it sounds uh sounds very hypocritical uh if they like your money but they don't want you to make the

00:14:19.200 money all right thanks for watching thank you for subscribing special thanks to those of you who

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PJ The Belt - August 06, 2025

Alberta LEAVES, Canada Becomes 3rd World Country! - TRUMP & 2026 INDEPENDENCE Vote!

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