PJ The Belt - September 09, 2025


Alberta WALKING AWAY From Canada - The USA STATEHOOD Recognition Incoming？!


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9 minutes

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1,567

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132

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5

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3

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The Alberta Prosperity Project is fighting to force a referendum on Alberta's independence from Canada. They argue that a referendum should be held on separation from the rest of the country, but the government won't allow it.

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00:00:00.000 Do you agree that the province of Alberta shall become a sovereign country and cease to be a province in Canada?
00:00:06.160 If you get Albertans to express the sentiment that they have had enough and that they do want to leave,
00:00:13.140 whether or not that's to become independent or whether it's to join the United States as the 51st state, it doesn't matter.
00:00:18.740 Once you get across that threshold, then you'll find out what can happen after that.
00:00:22.840 Maybe it will be a renegotiation of the terms of this country.
00:00:26.040 I suspect that's not likely, but it's possible.
00:00:28.420 Maybe they'll have to go the whole way and become independent.
00:00:31.140 Maybe after they do that, they will think about joining the U.S. or not.
00:00:34.460 We are heading into the undiscovered country now. We don't know.
00:00:37.560 Things continue to get more messy and complicated for Alberta patriots
00:00:41.440 as government bureaucrats come up with delayed tactics to deny Albertans the right to vote for their independence.
00:00:48.620 The challenging court battles and attacks from the government paid media have begun.
00:00:52.620 The Alberta Prosperity Project vows to fight in court for as long as it takes to make sure Albertans make their voices heard
00:00:59.600 and get a real referendum on independence and separation from Canada.
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00:01:08.400 My name is Brian and my question is, if all this is legal and the referendum and everything,
00:01:16.820 why are we letting the government take us through the court procedure to decide if we can do this?
00:01:25.660 Well, again, it's just game-playing on the part of the government.
00:01:31.100 I still want to find out who it was that amended the Citizens' Initiative Act to put that provision in.
00:01:36.980 Somebody obviously did that to delay.
00:01:39.540 Another provision of the Citizens' Initiative Act is that the Chief Electoral Officer and Elections Alberta
00:01:46.500 are supposed to work with questioned proponents to help them if there's any concern
00:01:51.860 that the question that they have isn't legal or appropriate.
00:01:54.340 Needless to say, they never reached out to Mitch Sylvester.
00:01:57.880 They never reached out to our office to say, hey, oh, well, you know, we have some concerns about this.
00:02:02.560 Would you like to add the words, you know, consistent with the Constitution of Canada
00:02:06.740 to the end of your referendum question so we don't have any concerns?
00:02:10.120 We would have done it in a heartbeat, right?
00:02:12.400 But, of course, this is game-playing.
00:02:14.180 They are trying to delay us, right?
00:02:16.420 And this is going to come back, you know, if Danielle doesn't simply adopt our question 1.00
00:02:20.240 and put it forward under the Referendum Act, what's she going to do?
00:02:23.520 She has the ability to completely ignore the court. 0.99
00:02:25.940 If she doesn't do that, I think there's going to be hell to pay come the AGM, 0.99
00:02:29.060 and that's why I want all of us there.
00:02:31.320 So thank you.
00:02:32.080 Thanks for the question.
00:02:32.700 The Premier of Alberta isn't just talking tough.
00:02:37.260 She's playing chess.
00:02:38.840 She set down a list of demands to Ottawa, knowing full well that the federal liberals will never deliver.
00:02:46.460 At the same time, she's out hosting town halls, rallying Albertans to the idea of real independence.
00:02:53.840 And when, inevitably, those demands are not met, she'll have the perfect case.
00:03:01.520 Confederation cannot be salvaged.
00:03:05.020 And Alberta deserves to chart its own course. 0.88
00:03:08.980 Looks like she's building a roadmap to freedom, one broken liberal promise at a time. 1.00
00:03:15.440 How do you design a constitution differently so that the elites sitting on the court are not the ones dictating to everybody from now on?
00:03:26.960 How far are your rights go?
00:03:28.360 All right, so how would you change that?
00:03:31.800 Because when I talked to Brian Peckford, I wrote Brian Peckford, he says the charter has been abused because it went from God-given rights,
00:03:39.440 which he really thought people would understand, that God is supreme, to what I would call government-given rights.
00:03:45.800 So when people look at the charter, the way they interpret it is, here are the rights given to me by my government.
00:03:51.560 Would you flip that model so that it's restrictions on government versus restrictions on the people?
00:03:59.340 Yes, so this is a very good first step in imagining a new constitution.
00:04:07.340 The constitution that we have now is built in this way.
00:04:10.340 It has a default.
00:04:12.120 And the default is the state can do anything.
00:04:17.320 Its powers are unlimited.
00:04:18.960 It can provide for the general welfare.
00:04:20.500 Now, there are divided jurisdictions between the provinces and the federal government.
00:04:26.420 That's fine, but that's not what I mean.
00:04:28.000 The state as a whole, if you include the federal government and the provinces and all the other bits of the state,
00:04:34.220 the state's powers are unlimited, unlimited, except for those rights are set out in the charter.
00:04:41.020 So it's unlimited except.
00:04:44.580 And what I've been suggesting is there might be a way to reverse that default.
00:04:48.200 Instead of saying unlimited except, say, the state has the power to do nothing.
00:04:56.320 It is powerless except.
00:04:58.700 Because there are some things you want a state to do.
00:05:01.960 You want the state to keep the peace.
00:05:05.120 You want the state to protect you from invasions from outside, and so on and so forth.
00:05:10.680 So you don't want to make the state completely powerless because there's no point in having it then.
00:05:14.000 But if you establish that as the default position, the state can do nothing that's not specifically listed here.
00:05:21.800 And that if there's any question, if it's not listed, then you can't do it.
00:05:27.140 If you do it that way, then you actually don't need a charter or a Bill of Rights.
00:05:31.500 Because instead of carving things out of that unlimited amount of power, now the state's only allowed to do certain things,
00:05:39.080 so you don't need to prevent it from going further.
00:05:41.120 So that's one of the ideas about how to approach a newly envisioned constitution.
00:05:48.480 So when I tell you guys that Alberta and the rest of Canada, especially central and eastern Canada, are completely different, I mean it.
00:05:55.900 And the differences are becoming more and more pronounced and stark.
00:05:59.240 Look, Canada, eastern and central Canada, the federal government is the perfect representation of what that society is becoming.
00:06:08.900 We got to remember who voted them in because people will say, well, that's not my government.
00:06:13.820 No, that is your government.
00:06:16.060 Because if your province voted majority for them, then that is the government that you elected.
00:06:20.880 Of course, there's exceptions.
00:06:21.920 Of course, there's people in every province who have common sense, who have some great values.
00:06:27.800 But make no mistake about it, these people won by a large margin.
00:06:33.240 They're becoming more amoral.
00:06:35.580 They're becoming more corrupt, more emboldened in their decay, more emboldened in their destruction of the values and social structure that this country used to have.
00:06:50.360 And that's because the people figured out and decided that this is a movement of the people, not a movement of the politicians.
00:06:55.920 And we were just talking this morning over coffee before we started about the politics that surround this.
00:07:02.900 And it really does need to be a movement of the people, literal for the people and by the people.
00:07:08.300 Leave the politicians out of it for the first little while until it's their time to come in and finish the job.
00:07:13.580 But in the meantime, it's up to us.
00:07:16.100 And while I was in the midst of all of this, I learned a lot, not just about politics, but about the forces around politics.
00:07:25.000 And when we see these independence groups begin to fall apart and people blame egos, I learned that that's only half right.
00:07:37.300 Yes, it's egos.
00:07:38.740 But what actually happens is it's the people on the outside and it's global that don't want to see us become our own nation.
00:07:46.340 And they come in and they find the low-hanging fruit within those groups, who they can manipulate, who they can make promises to.
00:07:53.740 And then they use those people to collapse it from the inside rather than from the outside.
00:07:59.380 So it looks like it's a bunch of infighting.
00:08:02.200 And that was fascinating to me, which caused me to think that, you know what, maybe as we move forward with this whole independence thing,
00:08:10.280 all of us being under one banner is a terrible idea.
00:08:14.840 We need several groups to be doing this.
00:08:18.360 We need all the voices out there that we're all working together.
00:08:22.200 We're all friends.
00:08:23.180 We all talk.
00:08:24.920 But we're not all together under one banner because then it makes it harder to pull us down.
00:08:30.820 And it seems like everybody in this movement has figured that out.
00:08:33.900 And it's been great.
00:08:34.880 It's been wonderful.
00:08:35.860 And we've seen growth that we've never seen before.
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