PJ The Belt - May 22, 2025


Alberta To LEAVE Canada？ - STATEHOOD DEAL With Trump Possible! - SEPARATION Referendum in 2025？

Alberta STATEHOOD DEAL Backed By Trump？ - Separation From Canada ｜ Referendum in 2025 Alberta To Strike MASSIVE Deal With Trump Admin - UPDATE! Referendum in 2025 & Pipelines

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9 minutes

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156.53

Word count

1,507

Sentence count

109

People

Also mentioned:
Alberta Conservatives Jason Wilson Proud Albertan Danielle Smith Pierre Poilievre Danny Danes Angus Reid Kevin Pugh Tim Hoven Westerner Trudeau Mayor Greg

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3

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Hate speech

1

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The call for Alberta to separate from Canada continues to grow across the country, with every major news outlet in Canada having to cover it, whether they like it or not. Jason Wilson, a 28-year-old rancher, hears it from all sides.

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00:00:00.000 That's why I'm so pro-Alberta, and an Albertan first, I would say, is because of the legacy that was passed on to me.
00:00:08.880 Patience is running thin. Jason Wilson, a 28-year-old rancher, hears it from all sides.
00:00:15.800 My neighbours are done. They don't think it's worth it. I think there's a lot of emotion right now, too.
00:00:22.460 Do you think we will see a referendum on independence in the next 12 to 18 months?
00:00:26.680 I wouldn't be surprised.
00:00:27.440 Well, I guess they're going to have to pay attention to those Alberta rednecks now. 1.00
00:00:33.920 Separation and independence from Canada continues to be the talk of the town in Alberta.
00:00:38.700 The conversation seems to have gone mainstream, with every single news outlet in Canada having to cover it, whether they like it or not.
00:00:47.140 Now, you know the government paid media is going to try to put their pro-liberal bias on it.
00:00:52.560 That won't come as a surprise to any of us who know who signs their paycheck.
00:00:55.920 The CBC is the official government broadcaster, for those of you outside of Canada.
00:01:02.460 These people receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the taxpayers to spew liberal propaganda.
00:01:07.760 On their nightly show, called The National, they recently published a video about the Alberta independence movement.
00:01:13.800 I say this to you as a full disclaimer that you can expect bias reporting, and should take it all with a grain of salt.
00:01:20.400 In Alberta's ranch land, prices at the Innisfail Cattle Auction are way up.
00:01:32.940 They've never, never been better.
00:01:34.940 This cattle thing is on the move.
00:01:36.860 Danny Danes is part of the family-owned auction business established here in 1955.
00:01:41.700 What do you think about all this talk about Alberta becoming a separate country?
00:01:45.840 Oh boy, now you got me on the spot here.
00:01:48.060 I'm just kind of into the cattle thing here.
00:01:50.440 I want Canada to stay together.
00:01:52.260 True blue Canadian, our family.
00:01:54.040 It means everything to be Canadian.
00:01:56.080 Leave it to the CBC to find the one Alberta rancher who's actually in support of us staying in this abusive relationship with Canada.
00:02:03.240 He says being Canadian means everything.
00:02:05.960 But what does that even mean?
00:02:08.420 What is that everything he's referring to?
00:02:11.660 Is it the billions of dollars Alberta's forced to send to the rest of Canada every year,
00:02:16.440 even though 62% of Albertans recently voted against it?
00:02:20.220 Is it the green agenda and net zero laws imposed on our industry that continue to damage our economic future?
00:02:27.180 Is it the lack of representation we have in Alberta with significantly less members of Parliament and Senators per capita than Eastern Canada?
00:02:34.740 Or is it the fact that regardless of how Alberta votes, elections are decided in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa,
00:02:43.460 despite the fact that Canada would not survive economically without Alberta?
00:02:47.980 Tell me again, what is that everything?
00:02:52.060 Boy, here's big cows. 1.00
00:02:53.840 But the whiff of separation from Canada is being whipped up across rural Alberta.
00:03:01.520 Referendum to stay in Canada or leave.
00:03:05.740 You're a proud Westerner.
00:03:07.560 Yes, I am. Proud Albertan.
00:03:09.160 I see that.
00:03:09.940 There is a sense that nothing's ever going to change.
00:03:13.780 Tim Hoven, a farmer and formerly part of Take Back Alberta, says the last election was one too many disappointments.
00:03:21.600 The voting bloc that is Canada is Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.
00:03:24.660 Whoever is in favour there is going to form the government.
00:03:29.080 So to have any pro-Western government in Ottawa isn't going to happen because they have to appease to those Eastern voters.
00:03:36.220 And I think people have finally realised for us to move forward, for us to have a better future, we might as well act on that and actually get out there.
00:03:44.880 Alberta Conservatives were once sure they'd win the election, that Pierre Polyev would easily topple a decade of Liberal Left policies.
00:03:52.980 When he didn't, he met the prospect of more Liberal governance, something popped.
00:03:59.120 In cattle country, decades of resentments towards Eastern Canada resurfaced.
00:04:04.220 Something popped many decades ago.
00:04:07.180 Y'all just weren't listening.
00:04:09.020 Their resentment isn't coming from Albertans towards the East.
00:04:12.200 It's actually the other way around.
00:04:14.280 And Albertans have simply had enough.
00:04:16.580 The people of this province have been tired of the current situation for a century.
00:04:21.240 From the 1950s and the Milch Cow Campaign, to the 1980s with Trudeau the Father and the National Energy Program.
00:04:28.060 The desire for separation is nothing new here, and it isn't solely based on the results of one election.
00:04:35.260 I do agree, however, that the Liberals winning again, after everything they've done to this country,
00:04:41.040 was the event that opened the eyes of many Albertans, who were still putting their hopes on federal politicians
00:04:46.780 to fix an unfixable system, which is rigged against Alberta and the West, by design.
00:04:53.660 With the help of Alberta's Premier, Danielle Smith.
00:04:57.000 The federal government has taken hostile actions against Alberta, and against the Constitution,
00:05:02.480 and against our right to develop our resources.
00:05:04.860 Announcing the day after the election, she'd loosen the rules.
00:05:09.560 Making it easier for groups like the Alberta Prosperity Project to gather support for a petition and potentially a referendum.
00:05:18.760 Outside, the pushback.
00:05:20.940 The separatists are having a meeting inside the building, and we are demonstrating against separatism.
00:05:27.000 Do you think the movement is gaining strength here in Alberta to separate?
00:05:30.820 Not really.
00:05:32.260 It's been around for years.
00:05:34.800 They're like a bunch of little toddlers that are wanting to run away from home because they can't get their own way.
00:05:40.180 That's quite the contradiction there, lady.
00:05:42.740 If it's just a group of people acting on emotion like toddlers because they can't get their own way, as you say,
00:05:50.060 why has it been around for years then?
00:05:52.280 I always find it ironic to hear people her age, who should know better,
00:05:56.960 about the history of unfair treatment towards Alberta from Ottawa, really talking that way.
00:06:02.480 To hear an Albertan actually defend the federal side.
00:06:07.440 Seriously, what's that about?
00:06:09.780 Is it ignorance?
00:06:11.360 Has she been consuming too much liberal propaganda?
00:06:14.360 Is she a federal employee?
00:06:15.980 Or does she genuinely not see a problem with the historically inequitable position Alberta's been in since the joint confederation?
00:06:26.940 Hard to say.
00:06:27.720 Western alienation is kind of bread in the bone in the prairies,
00:06:34.700 fueled by a long-standing belief that equalization payments only go in one direction
00:06:40.380 and that Ottawa's heavy regulatory hand stifles the province's economy.
00:06:47.240 A recent poll from Angus Reid shows a broad majority of Albertans would vote to stay in Canada, 60%.
00:06:53.700 Those who would vote to leave, or are leaning that way, tops out at 36%.
00:06:59.760 Of course she would bring up the poll from three weeks ago, that was showing support under 40%.
00:07:05.420 Here's a much more recent poll, showing support at 45%.
00:07:10.080 This number, before a full education campaign about Alberta independence takes place.
00:07:16.020 Nice try though.
00:07:23.700 In Wainwright, at the first of the summer's charity barbecues, cheeseburgers are hot and politics just as spicy.
00:07:29.760 Thank you, perfect. Thank you guys.
00:07:31.700 Like most Albertans, I feel like we've just supported the rest of the country long enough.
00:07:35.540 Now it's time to look after ourselves.
00:07:37.220 I think it's a good idea.
00:07:38.400 Yeah, go up to Greg.
00:07:39.440 I'm a redneck.
00:07:41.340 So, yeah, I think it's a good idea.
00:07:43.900 I think it's economically good.
00:07:46.060 We'll have control of our own pipelines
00:07:47.900 and make our own decisions instead of being puppets to Ottawa.
00:07:51.940 But for others, separation is all sizzle, no beef.
00:07:56.860 I honestly don't think you'll get the, even close to the majority vote to separate in Alberta.
00:08:03.740 There's lots of talk, but I don't think it'll happen.
00:08:06.660 The feeling of being ripped off is a very strong feeling, a very strong emotion.
00:08:13.320 Mayor Kevin Pugh warns it can accelerate.
00:08:16.600 I just don't want the sleeping masses to wake up one morning and say,
00:08:22.460 like, holy smokes, this is, this is real.
00:08:24.780 This is happening.
00:08:25.960 Spoken like a true politician.
00:08:28.580 God forbid the sleeping masses wake up and realize that Alberta would be much better off 1.00
00:08:33.560 as an independent country than continuing to fund in perpetuity a country that hates their culture
00:08:39.160 and way of life.
00:08:40.700 No, no.
00:08:41.860 We can't have the sleeping masses realizing that, eh, Mr. Mayor?
00:08:47.420 Patience is running thin.
00:08:49.920 Jason Wilson, a 28-year-old rancher, hears it from all sides.
00:08:54.360 My neighbors are done.
00:08:55.820 They don't think it's worth it.
00:08:57.920 I think there's a lot of emotion right now, too.
00:09:01.040 Do you think we will see a referendum on independence in the next 12 to 18 months?
00:09:05.240 I wouldn't be surprised.
00:09:07.680 Wilson's family came here in 1887.
00:09:10.920 He's sixth generation on this land in our east of Calgary, raising cattle and farming.
00:09:16.580 That's why I'm so pro-Alberta and an Albertan first, I would say,
00:09:22.280 is because of the legacy that was passed on to him.
00:09:26.060 Alright, thanks for watching.
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00:09:37.340 Peace.