In today's report, we'll be looking at an oil pipeline announcement coming straight from Alberta, and how the rest of Canada, particularly British Columbia and Quebec, are already sabotaging the project, and it hasn't even started yet. And then we have Premier Danielle Smith with a very strong warning for Canada. Is she actually playing 3D chess and we just don't realize it?
00:04:50.680There is no bridge to cross unless the Albertan government and the federal Canadian government are committing billions of taxpayer dollars to build this project.
00:05:00.460And if that is the plan, then they should be transparent about it.
00:05:04.700Don't mistake my politeness or weakness on protecting our economy and our coast.
00:06:06.000But Alberta has been blocked at every single turn.
00:06:09.020They cancelled Energy East, which would see an Alberta pipeline go all the way to the east coast because Quebec was against it, among other special interest groups.
00:06:22.740They blocked Northern Gateway, which was a pipeline that was supposed to go to the northwest coast of British Columbia.
00:06:40.660The Alberta government seems poised today to announce a deal with Enbridge and some other major companies to put forward a pipeline proposal, an oil pipeline.
00:06:48.920Fortunately for you, I think it's not going to go to Quebec.
00:07:09.460But when you have your own fellow Canadians, your own fellow Canadians block your energy resources and your ability to bring it to the export markets, that just hits different.
00:07:55.180And this is a test of whether Canada works as a country.
00:07:59.260Because if we can't build with the collaboration of the federal government and between provinces, if it's everybody gets to get their products going to market except Alberta, that's not a country.
00:08:10.260A country is one where we support each other.
00:08:13.860And I hope that we can get more and more politicians to get there, too.
00:08:17.500This is exactly why I said that Danielle might be playing 3D chess.
00:08:20.560I mean, she's making the case like, look, I'm just trying to build a pipeline that will not only benefit Alberta, which happens to be a part of Canada, at least on paper, it will benefit the rest of Canada, a country that is hurting financially, a country that needs a W from whatever it comes from.
00:08:47.660This is the government itself telling us that the country is in deep, deep trouble.
00:08:51.940I don't know if you guys watched the video I put out two or three days ago talking about how the parliamentary budget officer, this is an officer of the government, said that Canada is in such rough shape, it doesn't have two years to fix this issue.
00:09:46.220They've been a lot more open to making deals.
00:09:50.280That's why we have a lot more pipelines to south of the border than we have within Canada, which is crazy to say.
00:09:58.160It's a lot easier to build a pipeline from Alberta into the United States to access markets than it is to build a pipeline just to the next province over to the west, to British Columbia.
00:10:09.260Maybe Danielle Smith knows exactly what she's doing.
00:10:14.100Maybe we're all getting ahead of ourselves and she's playing 3D chess here.
00:10:19.100She's showing all those who are sitting in the middle, who are not all the way on board with Alberta independence, showing them, look, I'm trying.
00:10:56.260So here's a clip from an interview Premier Smith did with the CBC, where she said she doesn't know what the consequences of a no will be, referring to the pipeline being denied by the federal liberal government.
00:11:30.920So how quickly from the spring of 2026 do you expect to have an answer from the federal government and a sense of whether it's yea or nay?
00:11:39.240Well, I would hope that I'd have a preliminary answer very soon.
00:11:42.400I mean, I want this to be on the project list by November.
00:11:45.320We have some work that we need to do to make sure that we scope it out and understand what the route would be, what the end point would be.
00:11:51.900And that is going to just take a little bit of technical work.
00:11:55.460But we should have a pretty good indication about whether there's a yes or a no.
00:11:59.180And I have to say, I don't know what the consequences of no might be.
00:12:02.760If everyone else is allowed to build projects except Alberta, then that's a real problem.
00:13:56.400She's doing all of this very publicly.
00:13:58.520People will see, those sitting on the fence that are not completely sold on Alberta independence, her efforts to try to get some sort of support and consensus.
00:14:09.580And all we'll see is Saskatchewan supporting Alberta and Alberta energy.
00:14:16.180What do you think that'll do for independence?
00:14:19.580At least for those who are willing to listen.