Alberta STATEHOOD DEAL With Trump？ - The New BREXIT! - Separation From Canada Referendum in 2025？
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In this episode, we discuss the possibility of Canada separating from the United States of America, and what that means for the future of the country. We also discuss the potential for a referendum on separation from Canada, and whether or not it would be a good thing.
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uh meaning alberta will never get to leave because no one will ever agree to let them go
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what matters then is not you know some kumbaya agreement that we'll never get with ottawa and
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the other provinces what matters is international recognition and if we obtain recognition from the
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united states well that is independence on that day yeah and what do you know the people shocked
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the establishment everyone was against brexit all the banks all the media all the political parties
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except for nigel farage's ukip and it happened and i think there's a chance of it happening here
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well independence is the talk of the town in alberta nowadays it seems many of the conversations being
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had in people's homes have to do with alberta separating from canada at least when they're
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not talking about the playoffs and the edmonton oilers that is no matter which side of the fence
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you're on at this point the reality is as much as the government paid news try to ignore it
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and even suppress it this story isn't going anywhere so they're forced to cover it and i'm loving it
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um i mean look if if trump said uh yeah we want alberta as our 51st state i think that would uh
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uh harm the cause of uh any constitutional change uh significantly uh independence always pulls
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significantly higher than joining the united states um but there are other options that could
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be realistically considered one is um you know economic union um you know and and kind of incentives
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that might come with that much as the legacy media and eastern media claim this is a fringe movement
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uh it's at the lowest in polls at 33 percent some polls have it in the low 40s uh that's significantly
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higher than the ndp and liberals get in alberta combined so you know if that's a fringe movement
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then the being a leftist is a fringe movement in alberta uh it's a large minority movement that i think
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has the potential to win not it's not standing to win yet but you know if trump were to say well you
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know if albertans decide they want to be their own country i'm willing to offer economic union with
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current if you want if you wanted to kind of maybe make that happen offer currency exchange you know um
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you know when west germany absorbed east germany they did a one for one deutschmark to whatever
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east german commie mark was called and and that was very expensive because they were absorbing a much
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larger entity relative themselves that was like uh you know one to four in currency uh canadian dollar as
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bad as it is it isn't as bad you know you have a lot of torontonians sneaking in saying i'm now
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burton yeah yeah uh so i think you know if he was being subtle and i one thing trump is not known for
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is being subtle uh but if you know if he wanted to see something like this he would put some reasonable
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measures towards economic union uh not political union but economic union in the window uh i mean our
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our main commodity oil and gas are already sold in american dollars our our economy runs north south
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not east west so so that kind of thing could make sense if trump wanted to hasten something like that
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he could make some moderate measures like that uh that could incentivize it yeah i think you're right
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you know um well i i would say just in terms of uh trump involvement he does present a unique
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opportunity uh for this to succeed after the fact you know i i think ideally this goes through a clarity
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act process that is legal constitutional the first two parts of the clarity act are that it has to be
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a clear question and a clear majority and i'm in agreement on that uh after that it gets murkier uh you
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have a conflict between the clarity act and then the universal right to self-determination of a
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geographically concentrated people and you know so we would need to negotiate with ottawa and the
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other nine provinces and have a virtual unanimity of them and in the meantime they can put a hundred
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poison pills in it making it impossible to leave as coin was saying in his globe column just this
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morning uh meaning alberta will never get to leave because no one will ever agree to let them go
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what matters then is not uh you know some kumbaya agreement that we'll never get with ottawa and
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the other provinces what matters is international recognition and if we obtain recognition from the
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united states well that is independence on that day yeah i've said it on this channel many times and
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i'll say it again the chances of canada negotiating a good faith agreement for alberta independence after
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a referendum vote is slim to none expect the federal government to come up with countless poison pills
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in the form of smear campaigns fake news propaganda multiple lawsuits manufactured indigenous issues
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and delayed tactics they'll do anything and everything to continue to milk the cow that is alberta
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many question whether canada would even recognize the separation vote but like i said before at the
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end of the day the ultimate event to legitimize alberta sovereignty is the united states recognizing it
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once america the most powerful nation on earth says alberta's independent it's over there's very
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little canada or any other country can do at that point but to recognize it as well think taiwan
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you're going to have some especially on the rural side there's going to be rural parts of alberta
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where separatism is 60 percent the alberta ucp is different it is a alberta party smith is trying
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to walk a fine line allowing both it to be home for conservative federalists and the independence
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movement which is difficult federally i don't see the same room i think conservative mps who
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want to speak their mind stay true to themselves on this who and many of them are genuine federalists
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it's not a problem for that but the alberta mps federally they have to sit outside the conservative
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party and and that that is unfortunate but you can't leave you can't form a new country without
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forming new parties but also like i'm just looking out the window of your boardroom here and i see
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the towers of downtown calgary there are many corporations that are national in scope but what
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about leaders of national or international companies what about people who have uh like if there was a
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sports star from the calgary flames or the edmonton oilers who who came out for separatism i think
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that the league would smash them i think that anyone who has a vulnerability to central canadian
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group think narrative control would be smashed um well there's gonna be a lot of pressure for that but
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i mean the independence movement you know sabio said it's like a wave coming into the beach and goes out
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but it comes a little bit closer every time others compare it more to a well flare uh whatever your
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metaphor uh this one is different this one is radically different than everyone before uh you
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know without meaning to you know denigrate previous waves of it of which i've been a part so i have to
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denigrate myself if that's the case uh this is not just a couple of cranks on the prairies uh ranting about
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god bless you you know the one square kilometer around where we're sitting here in downtown calgary
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you would not believe what the words i've heard come out of the mouths of senior business leaders
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this is not a crank on the ranch uh movement anymore but they're saying that to you privately
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when i look around i mean they they there is some fear yet of speaking i'll put it this way some of
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them a lot of them are are are there now ready to vote yes in the privacy of the ballot box many of
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them are now at the point where they will openly say and it's not just in private to me they'll openly say
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where they are on independence but they're not yet prepared to go stand at a podium or write a column
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about it uh you know in on a public setting but uh they're there and and this is bringing credibility
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uh i expect it'll probably be bring uh funding the the federalist side will be infinitely funded by
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by governments and and just and how do you stop that i mean you can have a law you can have elections
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alberta try to enforce it but try stopping the internet i think you're going to have every
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political activist in canada you're going to have international activists you're going to have
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um anti-oil activists you might have uh foreign countries with some stake in it i don't know
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you see that's a whole other angle on this there are many interests that will be and are working
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against alberta separation on top of canada's federal government and all the liberal organizations
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including the government-funded media you know cbc ctv global news etc you'll almost certainly have
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foreign actors and multinational corporations who wouldn't want to see an independent alberta
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because they have their own interests and maybe a sovereign alberta could affect them one thing's for
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sure things are about to get very interesting in alberta i mean opec would probably want alberta to
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stay shackled within canada i don't know what china would say i don't know what uh i i and of course
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we don't know what america's deep state would say they probably wouldn't mind getting their hands on
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the oil and maybe they think that independence is a halfway step i i think it would be a free-for-all
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and and everyone in the world would would pay their attention to it for a month yeah i i'm concerned
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about foreign actors on both sides and by foreign actors i'm also including ottawa i'm including
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ottawa as a foreign power in this pacific coast to winnipeg or flin flan it's a debate for everyone
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within there right uh if you're outside of that you know i i uh north south uh sorry if you're south of
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it uh uh west of that or east of that i i'd like it to stay out i'm not sure i'm quite sure actually
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it's not possible to to do that uh there's going to be there are so many agendas involved on both
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sides and in the age of social media how do you even know it's impossible to regulate i mean you you
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can do your best to not make it so blatant uh but do we really think that the people's republic of
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china doesn't have its ways or that the cia doesn't have its ways or ceases i mean if you and i aren't
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on a list already we're not doing something right let me throw you one last question it's about brexit
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about a decade ago the united kingdom they had a conservative prime minister who said all right you
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separatists i'm going to throw you a bone let's let's give you a chance blow off some steam we're going
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to have a referendum and i'll show you no one supports you look at me i'm so democratic i'm going to
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and what do you know the people shocked the establishment everyone was against brexit all
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the banks all the media all the political parties except for nigel farage's ukip and it happened and
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i think there's a chance of it happening here what and danielle smith is sort of in that
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interesting place where she's going to host the referendum if not necessarily champion the exit
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what what what what hasn't happened yet that you think might happen will will a leader emerge will
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will will something happen preemptively will mark carney surprise us all and and be more attentive to
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the west i don't think his cabinet suggested you help me help me see into the future a little bit
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because i don't know what to look for well it's brexit's not the only great example we have one much
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closer to home the charlottetown accord the charlottetown accord just like brexit had unanimous support on
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one side and that was to ratify the constitutional changes of the charlatetown accord the conservatives
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supported it the liberal supported the ndp supported it labor unions supported it the banks industry
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everybody ceos would take out ads everybody who was invited to a cocktail party anywhere in this
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country supported it the only opponents were the bloc québécois and the party québécois and the reform
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party a complete opposite and they opposed it for radically different reasons but they post it from
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different sides and it was defeated nearly everywhere outside of ontario yeah of course ontario
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ontario loyal she remains will do what she's told but um you know so like brexit it you had
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all the institutions and civil society and business all the different parties lined up on one side
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the movement's going to take new leadership to step up uh people have been stepping up so far
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and uh much of it's been positive but we're gonna need uh our nigel farage we're gonna need our preston
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manning our george washington pick your historical figure uh well no hopefully not a george washington
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because that means we're shooting so hopefully we don't need washington but um you know uh i'm i'm
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pretty cautiously optimistic that because this is not purely just the rural heartland of alberta anymore
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it's got people with some real financial and industrial skin in the game who now want to see
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this happen i i i'm cautiously optimistic we're gonna see uh new leadership emerge uh to to lead this in a
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way that it's credible that is not going to scare people living in the the two big cities of alberta
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uh and i i don't discount saskatchewan being a part of this all right thanks for watching if you enjoyed
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