Alberta Patriots Just SURGED in Recent Polls!!
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Alberta independence is officially too big to ignore, and it s also getting to the point where the panic is starting to set in in the establishment, and you can see the panic set in as the numbers are moving quickly, and the tone from the establishment has shifted from ignore those rednecks who gives to them what they think to
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you need to be aware that there's a recent poll that came out that now shows support for albert
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independence at 41 i actually texted it to your producer so as our petition campaign goes forward
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and hundreds of thousands of albertans line up for miles into the cold january nights
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to sign the albert what they're calling the alberta declaration of independence petition
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that albertans are leaving i mean we're serious about leaving uh we're determined to go and you
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know conservative mps in uh ontario and you know talking about national unity uh isn't going to
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stop it you say ah treason you should be proud to be canadian why why should i be proud to be canadian
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if this doesn't resemble the country that i grew up and that's what they're saying they have the
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right to ask that question why they have the right to determine their future why be proud to be canadian
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when the rest of canada is not proud of you you know in alberta they're so browbeaten by the rest
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of the country not even you know joking they really do feel a certain way about them they feel like
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they're lesser than them it's not the same country and i understand why they don't feel represented
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and i think they should leave albertans do it and i tell you what if you do that the united states has
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your back my fellow albertans this movement is officially too big to ignore it is also getting
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to the point where it'll be very difficult for ottawa to try to rig it though i'm sure they'll still
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try alberta independence is now surging in the polls not by a little by a lot and the federal
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government knows it when you're pushing 40 plus percent support this is not a protest movement
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anymore this is now a mainstream problem for the people in power the numbers are moving quickly
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and the tone from the establishment has shifted from ah it's never gonna happen to okay we gotta do
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something to stop this and you can see the panic starting to set in so let me walk you through the
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things that have changed here in alberta and why this feels like a real breaking point let's talk
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about it the approach in eastern canada towards alberta independence quickly went from ah ignore
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those rednecks who gives to them what they think to we better start paying attention to this because
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we don't want to lose our cash cow so you now have mainstream media doing all kinds of interviews with
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alberta independence advocates because this thing got too big to ignore the alberta prosperity
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legal council won't say which members of the trump administration they have spoken with directly
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but that the meeting did not include us president donald trump the group is now looking to create a
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feasibility study on how an independent alberta would be able to fund itself separatists in alberta need
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178 000 signatures by may for their petition to trigger a referendum on the province's independence
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joining me now is jeffrey rath general counsel of the alberta independence petition project jeffrey
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i know you spoke to vashi capellos we had that interview air on ctv's question period yesterday so
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let me put it to you again for those that may have missed your conversation with vashi too
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we talked about south of the border but your response to the article that came out from the
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financial times that you were seeking with your talks and u.s officials but 500 billion dollars worth
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of credit in order to possibly fund alberta if and when you gain independence i've heard rumors that
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they're trying to suppress this interview now because jeffrey rath came out on top i mean when
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you have an argument and the other side doesn't it's really easy to come out on top and all credit
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to jeffrey rath too he is a very good advocate for alberta independence he's effective and sharp
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and he's pulling no punches well first of all let's be really clear i mean alberta can completely fund
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itself without any help from the united states we've already done the feasibility study on that
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it's called the value of freedom a draft uh fiscal plan for an independent alberta we send 70 billion
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dollars a year to ottawa we get less than 10 million dollars a year back in you know in heart you know
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in federal transfers and we get 10 billion dollars in questionable federal services including national
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defense which we know isn't really any defense at all so we can completely fund ourselves um as a free
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an independent country the only thing we're doing is conducting a feasibility study on putting in
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place a you know a credit line in you know to ease us through the transition of cutting off all federal
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tax dollars going to ottawa from alberta and keeping all the money here in alberta i mean we're very
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serious people we're treating this as a very serious project we're doing our due diligence on behalf of
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the citizens of alberta we are looking forward to the day where we leave canada and we will be
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paying no more federal income tax no more gst no more carbon tax and that alberta will be the lowest
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tax lowest regulated jurisdiction in north america so that's what we're working forward to there's
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obviously you know billions of dollars worth of reasons for alberta to uh leave canada and nobody
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has ever been able to provide us a single reason that alberta would be better off if we remained in
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canada and you know i put that challenge up today i don't know tomorrow carney i put it out to every
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provincial figure please tell us why albertans will be so much better off financially if we stay in
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canada when the day we leave we no longer have to pay federal income tax or any other federal taxes
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and we'll no longer be uh you know subject to federal regulation of our oil and gas industry well
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let me just ask you jeffrey too is it just purely financial is that is that ultimately all all this
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boils down to for you and for your group like there's otherwise part of this but there's so
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much focus on the end on this financial part of it as opposed to remaining part of the country that's
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a question that a lot of people ask oftentimes because independence advocates focus on kitchen table
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subjects the economy is what's hitting canada the hardest but there are many more reasons than just the
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economics political equality taxation without representation is the biggest one the fact
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that alberta per capita has a lot less representation in parliament a lot less mps than eastern canada you
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have little provinces that contribute literally nothing financially speaking to canada having many more
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members in parliament per capita than alberta does while alberta contributes the most per capita to the rest
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of canada so the political reality that eastern canada chooses who governs the entire country
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disproportionately then there's the courts the supreme courts quebec gets like three out of the nine
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supreme court justices while all of western canada i think all of western canada gets three and i'm
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talking the entirety of western canada british columbia saskatchewan manitoba alberta we have our own
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so-called fellow canadians blocking our resources at every turn out of like five pipeline proposals
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out of alberta to other parts of canada only one made it through and that was a disaster it was supposed
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to be built by a private company and because the liberals made it nearly impossible to build
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the liberals had to buy that pipeline well that's a very big part i mean that's that's what they're
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threatening with they're threatening us with financial devastation you know it's always it's fear fear fear
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on a going forward basis so we want to show our fellow albertans and the rest of the world that
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albertans will be extremely well off when we leave canada we don't need canada canada needs us but they
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sure haven't treated us that way have they west coast tanker band emission caps production caps
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net zero nonsense coming out of the world economic forum you know on and on every time we turn around
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there is some new silly regulation coming out of ottawa to destroy our industry and destroy our economy
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and the weird thing about it that we have such a hard time reconciling is alberta literally supports
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the entire country of canada we even pay equalization to ontario for god's sake 15 billion to come back
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half of them to the maritimes on and on and you know what do we get for it we're mistreated our
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oil is referred to as dirty oil um you know we're just constantly disrespected on an ongoing basis they
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want to attack our culture with you know things like universal basic income where they're literally going
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going to destroy the industrial industriousness of our children i mean one one thing after another
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that's why we're leaving it's it's not just finance financial but albertans need to know that we are
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going to be so much better off financially when we leave that that's why we kind of lead with that
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message imagine a nurse married to a policeman they're both married making more than a hundred
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thousand dollars a year in a free and independent alberta with no more federal income tax their family
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income in their take-home pay is going to increase by you know uh you know forty to sixty thousand
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dollars a year and that's the reality that they can't refute canada needs alberta alberta doesn't
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need canada financially or otherwise they'll say well you're going to be a landlord country we already
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are we can't build the pipeline to the west coast without having to beg british columbia already said no
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and the federal government is like yeah we agree they have they have a veto we're not gonna allow
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alberta is already landlocked what changes if alberta becomes an independent countries we have
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leverage we have the ability to say to british columbia look if you won't allow us to ship our
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oil out of your coast we have the united states they will allow us they're more friendly to us we can
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make a deal with them and you know what we're gonna do we're gonna tariff all of your exports
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that are going to the rest of canada through alberta you we're gonna we're gonna tariff them
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it gives alberta the ability to negotiate on equal terms there's also the fact that the u.n has
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established that landlocked nations are supposed to get international access to ports one way or another
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and that's another thing that we can negotiate but alberta within canada has no leverage whatsoever
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we're part of a system where our voices politically don't matter elections are chosen east of the
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manitoba border so by the time the polls close in alberta they've already elected a prime minister out
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east let me put this yeah and and i understand and i understand again like a lot of those points i
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want to ask you too because melissa lanceman um did say today you know we heard from the conservative
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deputy leader about the possibility of alberta separate from canada i want to play you a clip
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and then get your reaction to it so let's listen to this i'm an mp from uh from ontario uh in a in a
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party uh that wants to fight for united canada one that is resilient one that wants to stand one that
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can stand on its own two feet one that develops our resources that treats provincial autonomy uh with
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with respect um i certainly understand the uh the feelings of uh of those but i don't think anybody
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should be uh lobbying uh anybody on on separation i think we should fight here for united canada and
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that's not what the liberals are doing it is up to the prime minister to make the argument on uh on
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separation and we didn't have this before he was here for many many years we didn't have separation
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movements okay so that was again earlier today in ottawa i just want to get your reaction to that to that
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i don't want to be disrespectful to that member of parliament but my response is so what okay you
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know it's about time that people in ontario start paying their own bills and they can shoulder the
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burden of the welfare you know the welfare economy of the maritimes for once albertans are tired of it
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and you know you need to be aware that there's a recent poll that came out that now shows support
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for albertia independence at 41 i actually texted it to your producer so as our petition campaign goes
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forward and hundreds of thousands of albertans line up for miles into the cold january nights
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to sign the albert what they're calling the alberta declaration of independence petition
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but albertans are leaving i mean we're serious about leaving uh we're determined to go and you know
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conservative mps and uh ontario and you know talking about national unity uh isn't going to stop it
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you know pierre paulia's speech at the conservative convention in calgary didn't change anybody's minds
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danielle smith saying that she's first strong alberta within a united canada hasn't changed
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anybody's minds like we're leaving i mean people just need to get their heads around that starting
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to plan accordingly yeah canada can start planning accordingly 41 support for alberta independence
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i'm going to put this in context for you guys quebec nearly separated in the 1990s some people argue
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that they never meant to separate that they were only using it for concessions but be that as it may
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as it may their campaign when they nearly got 50 percent of the vote they got i think 49.5 percent
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in the 1990s their campaign started in the low 30s i believe it started at 30 to 32 percent and they got to
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49.5 after a campaign alberta has pulled anywhere between 35 and 45 percent that's the range
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and you guys watching this show know that conservative opinions are oftentimes underestimated
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when it comes to mainstream media polling they under poll conservatives to show like liberal-minded
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people have more support than they actually have it's the trump effect ah trump is never gonna beat hillary
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trump is not gonna win against kamala and then boom right they always under poll conservative people
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conservative people also have jobs right we got day jobs we're not sitting at home on the internet
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all the time we're not just available to pick up a phone call from a pollster i've never gotten
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one of those phone calls by the way so we're looking at 41 percent according to a recent poll and this
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is without a full-on campaign for the referendum yet and this is in the middle of the winter in alberta
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which is very very harsh i wanted to show you guys a portion of the segment from stephen crowder
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he's a canadian american youtuber and he was talking about alberta independence and a lot of the things
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he said on his show resonated with me so i wanted to react and provide commentary as we watch pretty
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big number of albertans right now are pushing for a referendum that would see that province leave
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canada i'm not going to say it's it's likely but it is definitely within the realm of uh of possibility
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and i would like to push it over the edge here allegiances are clear these albertans want to separate
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from canada we're not being treated very and the only way we're going to make a change
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is by demanding basically our independence yep we're leaving hundreds filed into an edmonton hotel
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to sign a petition in hopes of triggering a referendum over alberta independence i'm kind of tired
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to see the easterner basically having the pleasure of shitting on alberta blocking everything that we
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want to do if they took us seriously if they actually took off the caps took away the red
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younger older people everyone's opening up oil letting alberta prosper over the last few weeks
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thousands of similar events across the province organizers need to collect close to 178 000
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signatures you know i'm confident we're going to get it done like we're well on our way to the
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million signature goal that we set for this campaign and alberta just keep in mind i'll i'll
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get to more stats here is one of the few net contributors to canada so that wasn't just a
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guy complaining he actually understands what he's talking about they have everything that they need to
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become a country even a military yep yeah and and they rumored a new currency i got a few rifles
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myself there you go that's the one it is him yes that's the one with a shaky bill i get it
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he's from alberta i don't know he's from alberta but i know it'd be shaky
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it seems they're serious about this it's not just a pr stunt which people were saying before the group
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leading this effort they've even met with some um some u.s government officials and i'm going to go
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through some reasons here as to why alberta should do this and it would be good for the united states
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by the way which means good for the world at large because what's good for the u.s is good for the world
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um alberta really people acting as though they're treasonous they want canada to be what it was in
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the 80s to be clear canada is unrecognizable canada is almost unrecognizable from when i used to live
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there and even my french canadian relatives will tell you that and they come from a very different
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canada but for alberta they have a stronger case than most here's the first reason key facts one
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they are far more conservative than the rest of canada it's not even close i would actually usually
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canada conservative would mean a moderate democrat here alberta i would say their conservatives are
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actually probably to the right of our rhinos to be clear and those who live in alberta let people know
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um i i'm trying to give a sort of a comparison that americans i live in alberta alberta is my home
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alberta would be a republican red red republican state just like north dakota just like montana
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just like wyoming 2025 election results uh alberta 64.8 voted conservative
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saskatchewan is similar to saskatchewan is very conservative as well so it's really alberta and
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saskatchewan keep in mind that's a parliamentary system where you have uh your prime minister often
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elected with like 40 something percent of the vote so a majority of all albertans voted conservative
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national it was 41 conservative 43 liberal i know americans are going what happened to the
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other percentage that's why it's a silly system that sucks silly it's stupid two-party system man
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go look at the brokenness of the parliamentary system and get back to me no one's saying that any
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is perfect but ours is better here's something else alberta has had a conservative government
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almost continuously for 91 years so from 1935 to 2015 and from 2019 to today you tell me
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that a province like that is governable under trudeau and then carney it's not if you talk
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about a national divorce it's been happening for a long time canadians are just too polite to tell you
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now they're telling you which brings me to the key fact that i think most people are discussing and
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and it's true key fact number two alberta subsidizes the rest of canada in a way that frankly defies
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reason for a lot of people so from 2007 to 22 they have been one of only three provinces that are net
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contributors and it's not even close alberta 244 billion dollars british columbia 46 billion dollars
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that's the next closest ontario 41 billion dollars we compare that to manitoba they're a net drain of
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94 billion dollars nova scotia 120 billion dollars quebec 327 billion dollars negative the other way
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yeah the other way negative but taking a net loss wow and that's why this is also pretty important it
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tells you the kind of propaganda you're seeing some of this is to the united states some of this is to
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those watching from canada think of how they have uh venerated these quebec separatists
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right we have the streets uh renee lebec is one i know there are other streets i'm forgetting about
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in montreal people who tried to separate from the country and the funny thing is if you look at
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quebec's referendums they always used it as leverage to get some more freebies where the argument can be
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made they never really thought it would happen they just wanted more free stuff and guess who's paying
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for it alberta so alberta has a valid claim he brings up a very valid point which i brought up
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earlier a lot of people theorize that quebec and some people in quebec they theorize that quebec has
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used the threat of separation to get concessions but they never meant to actually leave canada i mean
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the numbers make sense quebec would be much worse off without canada it's just the numbers it's not a
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feelings it's not a oh but maybe possibly no the numbers are there quebec is a net drain to canada's
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finances alberta is the polar opposite literally the polar opposite alberta is the biggest net
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contributor most people think it's ontario no it's not we're talking per capita and we're talking
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contributions alberta is the largest net contributor and it's not even close it's like 260 for number one
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alberta and then number two i think it's british colombia i think you just showed it it's like 40.
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so it's it's not even like it's like oh 210 and then 200 it's not even close just by the numbers
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which is why i believe the leadership of the alberta independence movement focuses on them on the
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numbers is because numbers have nothing to do with feelings numbers don't care whether you feel
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nostalgic about the canada that was numbers tell you reality this is the canada that is
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this is what we're dealing with okay and it doesn't care about what your opinion is or not
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numbers are facts and factually alberta would be better off economically away from canada being
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an independent country people say ah the military and this and that alberta would be able to fund all
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those things not that canada has much of a military to brag about to begin with it's literally not that
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great of a military especially after the 10 years we've had under trudeau which gutted the military
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certainly much more so than quebec why the vilification oh because they're anti-communist
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got it there are a lot of strong opinions too about this all over canada even in forgotten newfoundland
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he said he said yes he said to my grandfather safe patrick been hung home in order what that's
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a real person from a real culture that's allowed to exist in a real country i love a guy is that
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english or like a different dialect i just love he's laughing at i have no idea what he's laughing at but
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i'm not a problem he can entertain himself yeah you give that guy some tinker toys yeah he's a pretty
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chill you'll be suffocating laughing for weeks oh by the way in canada our polish jokes were newfie
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jokes for people who don't know in the states canadians back me up on that they were newfie
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jokes i didn't understand when i moved to the states that you guys didn't have newfie jokes no we don't
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we know it's all that's newfoundland newfoundland newfoundland newfoundland yeah newfoundland
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yep yep it's a very beautiful place but uh it's a silly people key fact number three here
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um ottawa which is the capital right of canada they they kind of hold alberta's oil the energy hostage
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so pretty much alberta can develop their own oil resources but the canadian federal government
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controls the export and so alberta has run into a lot of challenges because the rest of canada is
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happy to take the money they're just going to tell you how you give it to them they're going to tell you
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how you subsidize the rest of the country so for example some of the challenges like ottawa
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has been diverting alberton oil royalties to other provinces they've been imposing the capital
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environmental regulations uh in ottawa a lot of the politicians have been opposed to the pipeline
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construction from british columbia so they're happy to take the money uh they just want to tell
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you how you do it and they're going to siphon it off to other non-contributing zeros so again that
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all goes back to the argument that some people make alberta would be a landlocked nation
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okay uh for one being a landlocked nation doesn't determine inherently that you will be a failed
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state i mean look at switzerland hungary the czech republic all countries that are successful
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particularly switzerland right all wealthy countries that are doing just fine because the u.n
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sets up a parameter for countries that are landlocked to have access to ports it's literally international
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law but then there's the more pressing fact of the matter which is that alberta is already currently
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landlocked we're already landlocked we have access to the third largest oil reserves in the world
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a wealth a bounty of natural resources but we have to deal with a woke government that won't allow us
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to export it won't allow us to develop it and they create laws and policies that strangle our industry
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and they've been doing that since the 80s under justin trudeau's father pierre trudeau
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in the 1980s that guy devastated thousands and thousands of alberton families with an evil anti-energy
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program called the national energy program literally destroyed thousands of livelihoods
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okay and now we got premier danielle smith answering the whole albertans are treasonous for
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wanting independence situation let's have a listen i want to talk directly to those albertans
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there are thousands of albertans who are so frustrated with the last 10 years of ottawa's
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attacks on their friends and families livelihoods that they feel alberta would be stronger and more
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prosperous as an independent nation it would that is an understandable and justifiable feeling to have
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even if we disagree on what to do about it these albertans are not traitors nor should they ever be
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treated as such they just love their province and family and want a better future than the one
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ottawa is offering them right now and here's a moment from our great former prime minister black
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phase drama teacher justin trudeau back in 2017 when canada was celebrating its 150 years of being
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kind of a country under the british crown check this out let me let me know what's missing from this
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little motivational speech from the drama teacher we may live in british columbia
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yukon the northwest territories saskatchewan manitoba nunavut ontario
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quebec we're back new brunswick prince edward island nova scotia or newfoundland and labrador
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but we embrace that diversity while knowing in our hearts that we are all canadian so i guess it was
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destiny you know he mentioned all those provinces and territories that are all canadian and embrace
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diversity and he didn't mention alberta so perfect good justin trudeau might have made it official back
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in 2017. thank you justin alberta is its own independent country and it doesn't belong in that list we do
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not want to be a part of that list thank you thank you for watching if you support these videos
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