Alberta To LEAVE Canada？ - STATEHOOD DEAL With Trump Possible! - SEPARATION Referendum in 2025？
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Summary
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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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.
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Patience is running thin. Jason Wilson, a 28-year-old rancher, hears it from all sides.
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My neighbours are done. They don't think it's worth it. I think there's a lot of emotion right now, too.
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Do you think we will see a referendum on independence in the next 12 to 18 months?
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Well, I guess they're going to have to pay attention to those Alberta rednecks now.
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Separation and independence from Canada continues to be the talk of the town in Alberta.
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The conversation seems to have gone mainstream, with every single news outlet in Canada having to cover it, whether they like it or not.
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Now, you know the government paid media is going to try to put their pro-liberal bias on it.
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That won't come as a surprise to any of us who know who signs their paycheck.
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The CBC is the official government broadcaster, for those of you outside of Canada.
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These people receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the taxpayers to spew liberal propaganda.
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On their nightly show, called The National, they recently published a video about the Alberta independence movement.
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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.
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In Alberta's ranch land, prices at the Innisfail Cattle Auction are way up.
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Danny Danes is part of the family-owned auction business established here in 1955.
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What do you think about all this talk about Alberta becoming a separate country?
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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.
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Is it the billions of dollars Alberta's forced to send to the rest of Canada every year,
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even though 62% of Albertans recently voted against it?
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Is it the green agenda and net zero laws imposed on our industry that continue to damage our economic future?
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Is it the lack of representation we have in Alberta with significantly less members of Parliament and Senators per capita than Eastern Canada?
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Or is it the fact that regardless of how Alberta votes, elections are decided in Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa,
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despite the fact that Canada would not survive economically without Alberta?
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But the whiff of separation from Canada is being whipped up across rural Alberta.
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There is a sense that nothing's ever going to change.
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Tim Hoven, a farmer and formerly part of Take Back Alberta, says the last election was one too many disappointments.
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The voting bloc that is Canada is Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa.
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Whoever is in favour there is going to form the government.
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So to have any pro-Western government in Ottawa isn't going to happen because they have to appease to those Eastern voters.
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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.
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Alberta Conservatives were once sure they'd win the election, that Pierre Polyev would easily topple a decade of Liberal Left policies.
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When he didn't, he met the prospect of more Liberal governance, something popped.
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In cattle country, decades of resentments towards Eastern Canada resurfaced.
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Their resentment isn't coming from Albertans towards the East.
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The people of this province have been tired of the current situation for a century.
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From the 1950s and the Milch Cow Campaign, to the 1980s with Trudeau the Father and the National Energy Program.
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The desire for separation is nothing new here, and it isn't solely based on the results of one election.
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I do agree, however, that the Liberals winning again, after everything they've done to this country,
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was the event that opened the eyes of many Albertans, who were still putting their hopes on federal politicians
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to fix an unfixable system, which is rigged against Alberta and the West, by design.
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With the help of Alberta's Premier, Danielle Smith.
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The federal government has taken hostile actions against Alberta, and against the Constitution,
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and against our right to develop our resources.
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Announcing the day after the election, she'd loosen the rules.
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Making it easier for groups like the Alberta Prosperity Project to gather support for a petition and potentially a referendum.
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The separatists are having a meeting inside the building, and we are demonstrating against separatism.
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Do you think the movement is gaining strength here in Alberta to separate?
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They're like a bunch of little toddlers that are wanting to run away from home because they can't get their own way.
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If it's just a group of people acting on emotion like toddlers because they can't get their own way, as you say,
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I always find it ironic to hear people her age, who should know better,
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about the history of unfair treatment towards Alberta from Ottawa, really talking that way.
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To hear an Albertan actually defend the federal side.
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Has she been consuming too much liberal propaganda?
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Or does she genuinely not see a problem with the historically inequitable position Alberta's been in since the joint confederation?
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Western alienation is kind of bread in the bone in the prairies,
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fueled by a long-standing belief that equalization payments only go in one direction
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and that Ottawa's heavy regulatory hand stifles the province's economy.
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A recent poll from Angus Reid shows a broad majority of Albertans would vote to stay in Canada, 60%.
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Those who would vote to leave, or are leaning that way, tops out at 36%.
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Of course she would bring up the poll from three weeks ago, that was showing support under 40%.
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Here's a much more recent poll, showing support at 45%.
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This number, before a full education campaign about Alberta independence takes place.
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In Wainwright, at the first of the summer's charity barbecues, cheeseburgers are hot and politics just as spicy.
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Like most Albertans, I feel like we've just supported the rest of the country long enough.
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and make our own decisions instead of being puppets to Ottawa.
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But for others, separation is all sizzle, no beef.
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I honestly don't think you'll get the, even close to the majority vote to separate in Alberta.
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There's lots of talk, but I don't think it'll happen.
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The feeling of being ripped off is a very strong feeling, a very strong emotion.
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I just don't want the sleeping masses to wake up one morning and say,
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God forbid the sleeping masses wake up and realize that Alberta would be much better off
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as an independent country than continuing to fund in perpetuity a country that hates their culture
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We can't have the sleeping masses realizing that, eh, Mr. Mayor?
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Jason Wilson, a 28-year-old rancher, hears it from all sides.
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I think there's a lot of emotion right now, too.
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Do you think we will see a referendum on independence in the next 12 to 18 months?
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He's sixth generation on this land in our east of Calgary, raising cattle and farming.
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That's why I'm so pro-Alberta and an Albertan first, I would say,
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is because of the legacy that was passed on to him.
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