Alberta To Strike MASSIVE Deal With Trump Admin - UPDATE! Referendum in 2025 & Pipelines
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Summary
The Prime Minister of Alberta, Danielle Smith, has a new deal in the works with the United States of America. She's been in talks with President Donald Trump about a potential deal that would see more energy pipelines built between Alberta and the U.S., and she's also been laying out her demands to Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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that i think is something that the presidency under is beginning to understand very well
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certainly the interior secretary doug bergam and energy the energy secretary chris wright understand
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that very well and so we're looking to see if we can normalize our our partnership so that
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we can get into talking about what those new pipelines might look like i commented in a
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previous video about what seems to be the strategy that the premier of alberta daniel smith is
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following she's hinted several times about talks and meetings she's having with the trump
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administration to work out a deal that's mutually beneficial for both the united states and alberta
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it'll come as no surprise to anyone watching this channel that one of the major goals of president
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trump is to achieve what he calls american energy dominance it will also come as no surprise to
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those listening that one of alberta's main goals is to get more energy pipelines built
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the leader of alberta's government has presented her demands to canada's prime minister
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putting emphasis in how crucial this is if canada wants to continue being a united country
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she's also hinted likely purposefully that our government is already in talks with top officials
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from the trump administration who are willing to offer alberta that which canada isn't meanwhile
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several chiefs traveled from alberta to ottawa to demand carney and king charles honor treaty rights
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we need to hold the prime minister carney accountable we need to keep him his feet to the fire
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and at task you know the king came here to read out you know the throne speech
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you know very disappointed again no word about treaty
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chiefs wanted to meet with the king to discuss concerns like resource revenue sharing and
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protecting the environment but that did not happen they sound like they just found out that the british
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monarchy could care less about their opinions or concerns it's really unfortunate but the way native
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canadians have been mistreated especially by the crown is nothing new so i find it really ironic when
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i hear aboriginal chiefs claim that they made a deal with the crown and place any sort of trust on
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that so they went to ottawa to see the king and request an audience with him and the prime minister i
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guess and it sounds like charles didn't even bother to give them 10 minutes again that kind of behavior
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from the crown towards indigenous people is nothing new they've been doing that for hundreds of years
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many people who oppose alberta independence seem to be misinformed about what treaty land actually means
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from the sounds of it they think it's land that's fully owned by the native tribes and that because
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of this alberta can't legally separate well i regret to inform you that's nonsense here's the reality of
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what treaty land actually means you're looking at a tweet by alberta constitutional lawyer keith wilson
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where he explains that treaty lands were ceded as in permanently given up to the federal government
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then in the 1930s the natural resources transfer agreement saw the canadian federal government
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transfer the ownership of that treaty land to the government of alberta reservations are continued to
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be owned by the tribes and they only make up about 1.3 percent of alberta's total land mass
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on a different note over 2 000 albertans showed up to the united conservatives event in calgary
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where the premier spoke about her demands of the federal government and how she has no patience for
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the status quo so let me say this as clearly as i can with all due respect to prime minister mark carney
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anyone else on my medicine in our way i will not i cannot allow the status quo to continue
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our government has committed to negotiating a new deal for alberta uh an alberta of a court if you will
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first alberta requires guaranteed corridor and foreign access to tidewater off the pacific arctic
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and atlantic coasts with the international export of alberta oil gas mineral minerals
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second the federal government must hand all federal interference in the development of provincial
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resources by repealing the no new white wine slot c69 the oil tanker mat and then zero electricity
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to make zero the gas for the tuesday's mat the net zero vehicle landing and any federal law
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regulation is a force to regulate the rest of our commission's plastics commercial speech of
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energy companies and so on third the federal government must refrain from imposing export
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taxes or restrictions on the export of alberta resources without the consent of the government
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in alberta and fourth the federal government must provide alberta the saving for capital federal
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transfers and equalization as it's received by penetrating large
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we'll see what happens but i don't have much hope for her demands being met
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i'm also not dumb enough to trust the promise coming from a liberal
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many albertans feel frustrated that she's even entertaining the possibility of staying a part
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of canada under any conditions to this she's answered that her job is to try to improve alberta's
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position within canada i'm personally not a fan of that approach i wish she just came out and
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supported independence but she did implement the law making the referendum vote a more attainable
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possibility if you will so i'll give her that i'll also give her credit for continuing communications
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with the americans and advancing bilateral deals directly with the trump administration
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she mentioned in a previous interview something to the effect of what will it look like to albertans
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that it's much easier to make a deal on energy pipelines with the americans than it is within
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our own country what will that do for national unity and she's got a solid point there once albertans
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realize it's a lot easier to do business with our neighbors to the south and that our industry is
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actually appreciated and respected by them why would we stay a part of canada the american aspiration
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of energy dominance hinges on being able to have a partner who can backfill if there is any supply
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disruption so the americans right now consume about 19 million barrels of oil a day and produces 13
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million barrels and so you need to get the balance from somewhere we happen to have a particular brand
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of heavy oil that isn't available in the u.s the only other partners you'd have to look at are places like
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iran and venezuela or you'd have to retool your refineries and so i think because we have this
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unique integrated relationship the the fact that we're able to sell about 100 billion worth of oil
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products at a discount to the u.s the americans are able to upgrade it to a value of 300 billion and
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then also be able to export their west texas intermediate internationally to meet strategic goals
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that just seems to be like a mutually beneficial partnership and so the more the americans want to
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export the more they'd be looking at canada to be able to backfill to keep prices low and stable for
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consumers and so that i think is something that the the presidency under is beginning to understand
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very well certainly the interior secretary doug burgum and energy the energy secretary chris wright
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understand that very well and so we're looking to see if we can normalize our our partnership so that
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we can get into talking about what those new pipelines might look like not only would we be able to
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have i think a bitumen heavy oil pipeline that would link our heavy oil to the heavy oil refining
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capacity in in the u.s gulf coast but also the opportunity for us to continue to provide additional
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supply of gas so that it can feed the some of the european markets we think that there's a an equal
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partnership there all right thanks for watching thank you for subscribing special thanks to those of
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