Alberta SEPARATING From Canada! Trump to Recognize Independent Nation in 2025？ - Update
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Summary
A few days back, the Premier of Alberta announced that she would lower the amount of signatures required to trigger a referendum on Alberta's separation from Canada. A few days later, the Wildrose Party came out against it. And more recently, the native chiefs have expressed their anger at the idea of Albertans choosing their own destiny.
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Alberta. We're wild and tough and beautiful. Maybe even a little stubborn. We agree that
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good enough isn't good enough. And we grab the bull by the horns. We're for small towns
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and big cities. We say hello to our neighbors and to strangers too. We know everything that
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matters starts with a home and a family. Well, things continue to get more and more interesting
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in Wildrose Country. A few days back, the Premier of Alberta announced that she would lower the
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amount of signatures required to trigger a referendum on Alberta's separation from Canada.
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Liberal politicians and the government paid news unsurprisingly came out against it. And more
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recently, the native chiefs have expressed their anger at the idea of Albertans choosing
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their own destiny, saying that any separation from Canada would violate their treaty rights,
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which I've said multiple times on this channel is simply not true. The treaties would continue
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as they are unless their leadership decides to renegotiate them.
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What I expect the Americans will do is that they will indicate at some point here that they will
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recognize Alberta's right to self-determination. That the Americans, whether it's the State Department
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or the President or someone, will say, we know there's this situation going on in Canada and
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we respect the right of Albertans to choose their destiny and have self-determination.
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The American government's done this in other instances where there's an upheaval in some
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countries around the world. And then I think the next thing they might do is say, well, if the
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referendum is in favor of separation, international states can give recognition, even where the home
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country doesn't agree. Think Taiwan, right? So a number of countries, including Canada, have recognized
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Taiwan, even though according to the Chinese constitution, Taiwan is part of China, right? So one of
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the options the Americans will have is to give international recognition to Alberta. Alberta will have
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that advantage going into the negotiation. That if everybody wants to play silly bugger and not
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engage in good faith negotiations, you've got Trump already signaling perhaps that he will give
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international recognition. Now what happens if the majority of Albertans, 50% plus one, decide to vote
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for independence? Can Canada simply stop them from becoming their own country? Could they use force to get
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them to stop? Doubtful. For one, Canada's military is nearly non-existent. And they're likely too busy
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replacing the tampons in men's bathrooms. And then there's the little concept of international
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recognition. The United States will likely recognize Alberta's independence from Canada and possibly
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entered into some sort of agreement to offer Alberta protection. Whether Alberta joins America
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all together like Texas did or stays as an independent nation remains to be seen.
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How is it helpful though, Premier, with respect to open the door to, for example, a citizen-led
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referendum on separation if your overall objective is to engage in more fruitful negotiations with the
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federal government? And if in fact that referendum results in a vote to separate, would you?
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I would say there's a lot there. I would say that we were in the process of modifying all of our
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elections laws because we had heard that the thresholds for both recall and citizen initiative were
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too high and so they were unrealistic. So that was a process that was taking place independently.
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It may well be that there is, that this is an issue around autonomy is the first one that
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garners enough signatures to be put to the people. But I would say my job is to look at what we see in
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the world out there. We've got 30 to 40 percent of Albertans polled saying that they are dissatisfied
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with the country to the point where they would consider it. And my job is to try to bring those numbers down.
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Correction, Premier, your job is to listen to your people. And an increasing number of Albertans are
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simply fed up with the Canadian government. 30 to 40 percent was the pre-election number.
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That's what I'm doing. That's why I have been told by my caucus and by the people that I speak with
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to give this new prime minister a chance to see if we can get to a deal. And that's what I intend to do
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is to go into those discussions in good faith and hope that we can get to a resolution and a meeting
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of the minds. Isn't the easiest way to quell that sentiment to say it won't happen?
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Sure, because not listening to your citizens and ignoring their concerns is the way to go.
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Can't say I expect it much better from government-funded media.
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Well, I think you can see that if there isn't an outlet, it creates a new party.
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In Quebec right now, the Parti Québécois is polling highest of the provincial parties.
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And we also see that the Bloc won a significant number of seats. I don't want to see that happen.
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I want to see us identify the issues that matter to people. Let's not demonize people. Let's
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acknowledge that the feelings that they have have a root and the root is in the way Alberta has been
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treated for the last 10 years by the Liberals. So that's genuine. And I'm being very direct with
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the prime minister and saying if we can solve some of these things, I think that will bring the
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temperature down. And that's what I'll continue to do. But saying that you don't want to get to the
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vote is not the same as saying that you wouldn't pursue it if it is a yes vote. Just to be clear
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to Canadians who are watching in Alberta and outside Alberta, if the citizens of your province vote to
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separate, are you going to pursue that? What I have said is that I will respect the outcome of
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citizen-initiated referenda. Look at the entitlement and fake shock this so-called journalist is
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displaying. I love how she mentions citizens outside Alberta as if they have a horse in this race.
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This has nothing to do with the rest of Canada. Whatever Albertans choose through a democratic vote
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is what matters in the end, not the opinions of people in Ontario, Quebec, or whatever other province.
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And that's why it's my job to make sure it doesn't get to that point. I want Canada to be strong and
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united and for provincial jurisdiction to be respected. And that's what I'll be working
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towards. Surely, though, you can recognize, Premier, that the feasibility, even if the vote were to go
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ahead, is incredibly complicated. And some of the, for example, Indigenous people in your province have
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highlighted that. You know, health care transfers, how does your system work without them? Like,
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you know, is it responsible to leave that door open in any way?
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Well, I think that's up to constitutional scholars and to lawyers to discuss. At the moment, there
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isn't a petition campaign. There isn't a question. All there is, is I think, some goodwill in trying
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to be able to resolve some of the issues that have burbled up over the last 10 years. And that's
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what my intention is going to be. I'm not even talking legally, though. I'm literally picturing
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Alberta, where you and I both know I lived for five, you know, almost five years, you know, with a
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health care system that does not have health care transfers. Nonsense. An independent Alberta,
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no longer required to subsidize the rest of the country through equalization, would be perfectly
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capable of funding each and every one of the existing programs it currently has. It could even
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improve on them. Fact is, Albertans send more money to the federal government each year than they get in
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return. But the government-funded fake news don't want to mention that little detail. Expect them to
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continue to try to manipulate Albertans by lying to them and telling them that they will lose social
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programs and pensions, which is simply false. An independent Alberta could cover all of that and
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then some. It's like, how does that, let's take the law out of it in any, like, shouldn't you be honest
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with Albertans who are expressing this sentiment, which is, I understand, not coming from a place that
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isn't unfounded completely. That sentiment is not something to be dismissed. But shouldn't you be
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honest with them about what it would mean if they were to vote yes, and now that you've opened the
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door to following their instruction, what that would mean for their social services?