PJ The Belt - June 24, 2025


Alberta Premier Announces VOTE For 2026! - Separation From Canada Next？

Alberta STATEHOOD DEAL With TRUMP - in The Works？ ｜ INDEPENDENCE Referendum in 2026! Alberta LEAVES Canada？ - New Update! A Chat With APP CEO, Mitch Sylvestre - Independence Referendum

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Also mentioned:
Alberta Pipeline Mark Carney

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Alberta truly has it all. Our home pristine mountains, pristine mountains and lakes, wide open pastures and fertile fields, unmatched natural resources, world class cities, world-class cities and people. We are a strong and free people full of entrepreneurs, food producers, food-producers, food workers, caregivers, caregivers caregivers, teachers and a whole lot of hard-working, tough-as-nails get-er-done grit.

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00:00:00.000 you have to threaten to leave and you have to mean it we have to be willing to actually leave
00:00:04.400 we have to be willing to create our own country that would be actually the ideal outcome i don't
00:00:09.320 even want to be a part of canada anymore and i know that a lot of people feel just like me
00:00:13.240 i'm an albertan first and foremost and only that's it that's my nationality albertan
00:00:21.080 hey everybody pj here hope you're all having a fine day today i wanted to comment on a video
00:00:27.120 recently put out by the alberta government called alberta next where premier smith talks about what
00:00:32.860 steps are going to be taken following the election of another liberal government in canada and all
00:00:38.700 its attacks on the province of alberta she states that the status quo is not going to fly anymore
00:00:44.840 albertans are not going to put up with it especially in light of the increase in support for the alberta
00:00:49.660 independence movement she talks about consulting with different communities all over alberta
00:00:55.380 in regards to what to do next let's watch all right this video is from the youtube channel of
00:01:01.980 danielle smith premier of alberta let's check it out alberta our home pristine mountains and lakes
00:01:09.060 wide open pastures and fertile fields unmatched natural resources world-class cities world-class
00:01:16.580 people alberta truly has it all we are a strong and free people full of entrepreneurs food producers
00:01:25.240 builders caregivers caregivers teachers and a whole lot of hard-working tough-as-nails get-er-done
00:01:32.240 grit better believe it our potential is as limitless as our skies but let's face it alberta's being held
00:01:39.200 back our economy has been under attack for most of the last 10 years frankly off and on for decades
00:01:46.040 long before then not by a foreign country or by world economic forces no alberta's biggest threat
00:01:53.380 to our prosperity and growth has come from our own nation's capital alberta has an ottawa problem
00:01:59.260 and that is the irony of this whole thing it's not a competitor in europe or in china
00:02:05.540 anywhere in asia africa it's not the saudis with their oil production no it's canada it's ottawa
00:02:13.080 it's ottawa it's central and eastern canada really quebec ottawa montreal they're the ones
00:02:21.360 that are the biggest obstacle to alberta's energy development and it ain't new this isn't something
00:02:28.280 of the last 10 years this isn't that oh albertans are mad because they peer poorly have lost no dude
00:02:35.000 that was just a straw that broke the camel's back man this is a long time historically alberta has
00:02:42.720 been screwed by ottawa in many ways economically politically many ways alberta per capita has
00:02:53.700 a lot less representation than eastern canada senators mps etc that was just the the election
00:03:02.700 loss of the conservatives after 10 terrible years of liberal governments uh where crime is higher than
00:03:12.260 it's ever been cost of living is completely unaffordable immigration is out of control all 1.00
00:03:18.540 things that 10 years ago were just fine people were barely complaining about them if at all
00:03:24.480 and canadians chose to elect the exact same people the exact same cabinet just look at mark carney's
00:03:32.860 cabinet it's a new face the exact same cabinet they chose to elect the exact same people to fix
00:03:39.220 the problem that they created that was the straw that broke the camel's back albertans albertans 0.54
00:03:46.260 were sitting on the fence we're like ah you know if the conservatives win maybe we'll catch a break
00:03:50.460 maybe we'll get some pipelines and we'll contribute more to this ungrateful country now this ungrateful
00:03:56.840 country said elbows up and we're gonna continue going down the path of quasi-communism socialism
00:04:04.280 craziness for the last 10 years ottawa led by successive liberal governments propped up by
00:04:11.320 their ndp allies have taken direct aim at alberta's core industries ottawa's bill c69 killed several
00:04:18.440 major alberta pipeline and resource projects their west coast tanker ban specifically blocks alberta oil
00:04:24.860 from accessing world markets their excessive industrial carbon taxes and the new oil and gas emissions cap are
00:04:31.760 designed to keep our world-class oil and gas reserves in the ground and net zero mandates on
00:04:37.320 everything from electricity to vehicles are causing the cost of living to increase business costs to
00:04:42.940 soar and are even endangering the stability of our power grid in the dead of winter and the effects on
00:04:48.560 alberta's economy have been staggering in just the last 10 years alone more than 500 billion dollars
00:04:55.480 that's a half a trillion dollars in global investment capital destined for our resource
00:05:00.420 sector has disappeared gone it walked away from alberta and canada and instead headed off to texas asia
00:05:07.840 and the middle east to places that welcome resource development and jobs that cost alberta and canada
00:05:14.480 quite literally hundreds of billions in gdp corporate taxes and resource royalties for health
00:05:20.640 care education and public infrastructure it cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and thousands of
00:05:28.240 healthy and growing businesses it was national self-harm on a level never seen literally and no province
00:05:35.000 was hurt more than ours and those costs keep building every single day but we're not just losing
00:05:42.760 investment we're losing trust as i said this story is bigger than just the last decade alberta has been
00:05:49.780 treated unfairly for decades long before that we built roads rail power jobs and prosperity for
00:05:56.540 this country yet we've been told to keep quiet and be grateful while sending 20 billion dollars a year
00:06:02.660 more to ottawa than we received back in funding each year in fact since 1980 alberta has contributed
00:06:09.680 653 billion dollars more to federal taxes than we received back means well over half a trillion dollars
00:06:17.340 what directly from alberta half a trillion other provinces mostly with economies larger than ours
00:06:22.860 through programs transfers and equalization all our money in alberta despite this we have continued
00:06:28.680 to be the economic engine and job creating juggernaut of this country and have opened our province to
00:06:34.200 those from every corner of canada and they keep moving here opportunity they talk but they keep
00:06:39.100 moving point out these facts how do ottawa politicians and eastern elites respond our concerns are dismissed
00:06:46.220 our values marginalized our leaders vilified and our industries remain targeted why within a united canada
00:06:53.980 you just stated that they've been screwing us for decades what what will make this time different
00:07:00.620 well i mean other than albertans pursuing a referendum and fighting to get their own independence
00:07:07.260 sovereign within canada was what does that even mean i mean she has to do her part she was she got
00:07:15.660 elected you know to try to work things out within some people say that she can't really come all the way
00:07:21.740 out and you know it can't be done through her it's got to be done through the grassroots and i partially
00:07:26.020 agree with that i partially do but i believe that some of this is gaslighting you know like oh we're gonna get
00:07:34.300 we're gonna get respected within canada they've been trying for for well over 40 50 years
00:07:40.300 ottawa doesn't care they have all the power they have the power of the supreme court they have the power
00:07:45.580 in the senate they have the power in the house of commons they don't care the only solution the only
00:07:52.460 antidote to this venom is alberta independence alberta independence whether you want for canada to 0.93
00:08:00.220 finally respect alberta and open that goddamn constitution and give alberta equal representation 0.90
00:08:08.380 an elected senate elected senate where every province and territory gets an elected or two 0.86
00:08:16.300 one or two senators that are elected by the people then equivalent based on population equivalent amount
00:08:23.340 of members of parliament and an equivalent amount per each province of supreme court justices
00:08:32.300 that that would be a different story but for for them to even attempt because why would they change
00:08:37.420 people why would ottawa change why would eastern canadians give a damn to change they don't care 0.87
00:08:45.100 you know what they care about though if alberta takes all its money that's why they keep criticizing 0.83
00:08:50.460 downplaying and underestimating because they know that if alberta left this country is done like dinner
00:08:58.700 done it's over they don't want alberta to leave it's the cash cow ontario can't sustain this country on its
00:09:07.100 own and neither can quebec quebec pretends to be a have-not province to be the biggest parasitic consuming
00:09:14.140 province in this country this country doesn't work so a sovereign alberta within a united canada
00:09:22.220 i guess she's trying to do her job she's trying to be the premier right she got elected she didn't
00:09:27.100 get elected on a set on an independence platform so i understand partially but that's not gonna work
00:09:35.740 we need to work on getting alberta to become an independent country and that's when they'll listen
00:09:42.300 when they realize oh ho ho we're about to lose the cash cow okay i guess we gotta start treating them
00:09:49.900 better they bent over backwards for quebec and quebec has never contributed that much never they're
00:09:56.940 consumers they take they give nothing they just take and complain and whine in french and they were
00:10:05.580 given all kinds of concessions when they threatened to leave you have to threaten to leave and you have to
00:10:10.780 mean it we have to be willing to actually leave we have to be willing to create our own country
00:10:16.140 that would be actually the ideal outcome i don't even want to be a part of canada anymore and i know
00:10:20.380 that a lot of people feel just like me i'm an alberton first and foremost and only that's it that's
00:10:28.540 my nationality alberton all right thanks for watching thank you for subscribing special thanks to
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