Alberta Premier Announces VOTE For 2026! - Separation From Canada Next?
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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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you have to threaten to leave and you have to mean it we have to be willing to actually leave
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we have to be willing to create our own country that would be actually the ideal outcome i don't
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even want to be a part of canada anymore and i know that a lot of people feel just like me
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i'm an albertan first and foremost and only that's it that's my nationality albertan
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hey everybody pj here hope you're all having a fine day today i wanted to comment on a video
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recently put out by the alberta government called alberta next where premier smith talks about what
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steps are going to be taken following the election of another liberal government in canada and all
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its attacks on the province of alberta she states that the status quo is not going to fly anymore
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albertans are not going to put up with it especially in light of the increase in support for the alberta
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independence movement she talks about consulting with different communities all over alberta
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in regards to what to do next let's watch all right this video is from the youtube channel of
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danielle smith premier of alberta let's check it out alberta our home pristine mountains and lakes
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wide open pastures and fertile fields unmatched natural resources world-class cities world-class
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people alberta truly has it all we are a strong and free people full of entrepreneurs food producers
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builders caregivers caregivers teachers and a whole lot of hard-working tough-as-nails get-er-done
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grit better believe it our potential is as limitless as our skies but let's face it alberta's being held
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back our economy has been under attack for most of the last 10 years frankly off and on for decades
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long before then not by a foreign country or by world economic forces no alberta's biggest threat
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to our prosperity and growth has come from our own nation's capital alberta has an ottawa problem
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and that is the irony of this whole thing it's not a competitor in europe or in china
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anywhere in asia africa it's not the saudis with their oil production no it's canada it's ottawa
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it's ottawa it's central and eastern canada really quebec ottawa montreal they're the ones
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that are the biggest obstacle to alberta's energy development and it ain't new this isn't something
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of the last 10 years this isn't that oh albertans are mad because they peer poorly have lost no dude
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that was just a straw that broke the camel's back man this is a long time historically alberta has
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been screwed by ottawa in many ways economically politically many ways alberta per capita has
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a lot less representation than eastern canada senators mps etc that was just the the election
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loss of the conservatives after 10 terrible years of liberal governments uh where crime is higher than
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it's ever been cost of living is completely unaffordable immigration is out of control all
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things that 10 years ago were just fine people were barely complaining about them if at all
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and canadians chose to elect the exact same people the exact same cabinet just look at mark carney's
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cabinet it's a new face the exact same cabinet they chose to elect the exact same people to fix
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the problem that they created that was the straw that broke the camel's back albertans albertans
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were sitting on the fence we're like ah you know if the conservatives win maybe we'll catch a break
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maybe we'll get some pipelines and we'll contribute more to this ungrateful country now this ungrateful
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country said elbows up and we're gonna continue going down the path of quasi-communism socialism
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craziness for the last 10 years ottawa led by successive liberal governments propped up by
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their ndp allies have taken direct aim at alberta's core industries ottawa's bill c69 killed several
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major alberta pipeline and resource projects their west coast tanker ban specifically blocks alberta oil
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from accessing world markets their excessive industrial carbon taxes and the new oil and gas emissions cap are
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designed to keep our world-class oil and gas reserves in the ground and net zero mandates on
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everything from electricity to vehicles are causing the cost of living to increase business costs to
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soar and are even endangering the stability of our power grid in the dead of winter and the effects on
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alberta's economy have been staggering in just the last 10 years alone more than 500 billion dollars
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that's a half a trillion dollars in global investment capital destined for our resource
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sector has disappeared gone it walked away from alberta and canada and instead headed off to texas asia
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and the middle east to places that welcome resource development and jobs that cost alberta and canada
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quite literally hundreds of billions in gdp corporate taxes and resource royalties for health
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care education and public infrastructure it cost hundreds of thousands of jobs and thousands of
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healthy and growing businesses it was national self-harm on a level never seen literally and no province
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was hurt more than ours and those costs keep building every single day but we're not just losing
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investment we're losing trust as i said this story is bigger than just the last decade alberta has been
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treated unfairly for decades long before that we built roads rail power jobs and prosperity for
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this country yet we've been told to keep quiet and be grateful while sending 20 billion dollars a year
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more to ottawa than we received back in funding each year in fact since 1980 alberta has contributed
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653 billion dollars more to federal taxes than we received back means well over half a trillion dollars
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what directly from alberta half a trillion other provinces mostly with economies larger than ours
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through programs transfers and equalization all our money in alberta despite this we have continued
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to be the economic engine and job creating juggernaut of this country and have opened our province to
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those from every corner of canada and they keep moving here opportunity they talk but they keep
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moving point out these facts how do ottawa politicians and eastern elites respond our concerns are dismissed
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our values marginalized our leaders vilified and our industries remain targeted why within a united canada
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you just stated that they've been screwing us for decades what what will make this time different
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well i mean other than albertans pursuing a referendum and fighting to get their own independence
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sovereign within canada was what does that even mean i mean she has to do her part she was she got
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elected you know to try to work things out within some people say that she can't really come all the way
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out and you know it can't be done through her it's got to be done through the grassroots and i partially
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agree with that i partially do but i believe that some of this is gaslighting you know like oh we're gonna get
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we're gonna get respected within canada they've been trying for for well over 40 50 years
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ottawa doesn't care they have all the power they have the power of the supreme court they have the power
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in the senate they have the power in the house of commons they don't care the only solution the only
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antidote to this venom is alberta independence alberta independence whether you want for canada to
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finally respect alberta and open that goddamn constitution and give alberta equal representation
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an elected senate elected senate where every province and territory gets an elected or two
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one or two senators that are elected by the people then equivalent based on population equivalent amount
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of members of parliament and an equivalent amount per each province of supreme court justices
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that that would be a different story but for for them to even attempt because why would they change
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people why would ottawa change why would eastern canadians give a damn to change they don't care
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you know what they care about though if alberta takes all its money that's why they keep criticizing
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downplaying and underestimating because they know that if alberta left this country is done like dinner
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done it's over they don't want alberta to leave it's the cash cow ontario can't sustain this country on its
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own and neither can quebec quebec pretends to be a have-not province to be the biggest parasitic consuming
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province in this country this country doesn't work so a sovereign alberta within a united canada
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i guess she's trying to do her job she's trying to be the premier right she got elected she didn't
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get elected on a set on an independence platform so i understand partially but that's not gonna work
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we need to work on getting alberta to become an independent country and that's when they'll listen
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when they realize oh ho ho we're about to lose the cash cow okay i guess we gotta start treating them
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better they bent over backwards for quebec and quebec has never contributed that much never they're
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consumers they take they give nothing they just take and complain and whine in french and they were
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given all kinds of concessions when they threatened to leave you have to threaten to leave and you have to
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mean it we have to be willing to actually leave we have to be willing to create our own country
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that would be actually the ideal outcome i don't even want to be a part of canada anymore and i know
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that a lot of people feel just like me i'm an alberton first and foremost and only that's it that's
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my nationality alberton all right thanks for watching thank you for subscribing special thanks to
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