PJ The Belt - September 04, 2025


Canada PANICS After Alberta Makes HUGE STATEHOOD Announcement!


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9 minutes

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1,468

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87

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An independent Alberta would keep $20 billion for every new pipeline that is built. An independent Alberta is a sovereign nation within the United States and would be able to negotiate with other sovereign nations such as Quebec. The Alberta Prosperity Project is the not-for-profit organization leading the effort to see Alberta become independent from Canada. They've recently deposited the application to have a referendum vote in 2026.

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00:00:00.000 Go ahead, sir.
00:00:00.860 Hi, my name is Corwin Willwerke, and I'm from the Stetler area.
00:00:03.320 Your video said itself, Ottawa continues or has ignored us and will continue to ignore us.
00:00:08.660 It doesn't matter what we do here tonight or what the outcome of this is, they will continue to ignore us.
00:00:14.440 There's one question, one question only, that needs to be on a referendum, and that is,
00:00:19.540 do you support Alberta exiting Canadian Confederation and becoming a sovereign nation?
00:00:25.160 At that point, at that point, then you'll be able to negotiate with Ottawa.
00:00:30.320 You'll be able to negotiate with Quebec.
00:00:32.860 Without that, they will continue to ignore us.
00:00:35.440 If they do not know that we are serious and we can leave at any point in time,
00:00:40.480 we will not ever get a pipeline to the Atlantic Ocean.
00:00:44.580 It is time to put the separation question on a ballot so the Alberta people can decide.
00:00:52.580 Thank you.
00:00:53.080 Thank you.
00:00:55.160 Look, if you've been paying attention to what's happening in Canada, more specifically in Alberta,
00:01:02.140 you'll probably start to notice a trend.
00:01:04.580 While the rest of the country has become mostly hostile and bitter towards the United States
00:01:09.620 during these trade negotiations, the province of Alberta has remained mostly diplomatic,
00:01:15.300 cooperative, and some would say even friendlier towards the Americans.
00:01:19.560 Furthermore, Premier Daniel Smith has made multiple statements
00:01:23.480 indicating a closer integration of the Alberta economy with its southern counterparts in Montana,
00:01:29.740 North Dakota, and others.
00:01:31.140 In recent declarations, she's alluded to energy development agreements and other deals that are being worked on with members of the cabinet from the Trump administration,
00:01:41.200 more specifically, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum.
00:01:46.180 She has also been warning the Canadian federal government about the unprecedented levels of support for the independence movement,
00:01:53.480 and that she fears that Canadian unity will fall apart once Albertans realize that it is much easier to trade with Americans than it is with the rest of Canada.
00:02:03.380 It seems Alberta continues to be at odds with the rest of the country while integrating more and more into the American economy.
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00:02:18.740 Thank you, and back to the video.
00:02:20.440 An independent Alberta would keep $20 billion for every new pipeline that's built.
00:02:26.060 So Keystone XL is coming, so we know that.
00:02:28.020 So there's another $20 billion.
00:02:30.020 We've been to, like Dennis, myself, and others, have been to Washington to meet with the U.S. administration.
00:02:36.740 They will support Alberta independence.
00:02:38.820 We're very excited about Alberta independence from the standpoint of U.S. national security
00:02:47.580 and freeing the Alberta oil reserves from a security of supply perspective
00:02:52.120 from control of the Chinese communists that govern Ottawa.
00:02:57.940 Oh boy, think about Trump.
00:03:00.180 So now if he gets Alberta and Saskatchewan, he gets the world's second, third largest reserve of oil and gas in the world,
00:03:05.900 with an existing infrastructure tying it to his country.
00:03:09.520 He gets, you know, all the forestry, both in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
00:03:13.300 He gets massive agricultural production capability, livestock and so on, grains, oilseeds.
00:03:18.860 One of the largest reserves, if not the largest, I'm not sure of that,
00:03:21.920 but one of the largest reserves of potash, which is fertilizer to grow fuel, food rather, food and other things.
00:03:28.940 One of the largest reserves of uranium for nuclear power and all of those things.
00:03:34.180 It's like, holy smokes, man.
00:03:37.080 Eastern Canada is just reckless in how they're treating the West. 0.96
00:03:42.020 The Alberta Prosperity Project is the not-for-profit organization leading the effort to see Alberta become independent from Canada.
00:03:50.660 They've recently deposited the application to begin collecting signatures to have a referendum vote in 2026.
00:03:57.560 This is a grassroots-led movement with an army of motivated volunteers who hope to see their province become its own independent nation.
00:04:07.020 They've been having town hall meetings and rallies all over Alberta this summer
00:04:11.260 and will continue their education campaign in hopes of increasing support for a yes vote in the upcoming referendum.
00:04:18.980 Getting that 50% plus one is the ultimate goal, but just as important is what comes after,
00:04:25.500 and having international recognition will be very important for Alberta after declaring its independence.
00:04:31.180 The APP had a delegation visit Washington, D.C. to speak with officials in the Trump administration
00:04:38.040 to see whether they would support Alberta's effort in self-determination.
00:04:42.820 The APP states that the response was positive and supportive,
00:04:46.900 and they confirmed that the United States government would recognize an independent Alberta after a successful vote.
00:04:53.100 One of the main questions in this larger debate is whether or not Alberta should actually separate and become its own country
00:05:00.700 or whether or not it should at least try to become a more sovereign province inside a United of Canada.
00:05:09.720 And I'm of the former view, I don't think, that trying to find a different path inside Canada is feasible.
00:05:20.580 Yeah, okay.
00:05:21.740 Because of what Canada is now, what it's become, and maybe what it always is.
00:05:28.280 Yeah.
00:05:28.580 Well, always was.
00:05:30.740 But there are different opinions about this.
00:05:33.700 What was the, if you had to like, was it a general consensus or was it kind of all over?
00:05:38.100 It wasn't unanimous, but the feel that I got from many of the speakers,
00:05:44.040 I think I, I found myself thinking that I was on the same page as many of the speakers.
00:05:50.880 Yeah, yeah.
00:05:51.460 That the moment has passed now for trying to reconcile with the rest of Canada.
00:05:57.820 Because, well, for my own reasons for that is because of,
00:06:02.960 because Canada is a different country than a lot of people think that it is.
00:06:11.040 Over these past five years especially, now it was apparent before that,
00:06:16.860 but in many ways our disbelief got in the way of seeing what Canada actually is.
00:06:24.600 But the last five years especially has demonstrated to a lot of people
00:06:29.440 that the country that they thought that they lived in does not actually exist.
00:06:35.900 It's, it's a different place with a whole lot of different characteristics
00:06:39.900 than the one they were thinking of.
00:06:41.440 Yeah.
00:06:41.780 The last five years have served as the ultimate wake-up call to many Canadians,
00:06:47.300 especially in the province of Alberta.
00:06:49.460 They've woken up to the reality that the country they grew up in no longer exists.
00:06:54.940 This place they live in today is but a shadow of what it once was.
00:06:58.780 Yet they see a portion of the population celebrating and even defending the decay.
00:07:05.540 The disconnect is obvious.
00:07:07.580 There are people in Alberta who still have some hope left
00:07:10.680 that Canada can still be reformed from inside.
00:07:13.900 But if we keep trying, Canada could improve its political landscape
00:07:17.600 to give Alberta a fair deal within Confederation.
00:07:20.560 Though the amount of people who think this way continues to decrease
00:07:24.700 as they realize that Canada does not want to change,
00:07:28.160 let alone for the benefit of Alberta,
00:07:30.780 it is important to still acknowledge that there are some
00:07:33.520 who support Alberta's sovereignty but view it as a mechanism to force change
00:07:38.920 and they wouldn't be wrong in thinking that.
00:07:41.700 If anything can shock Canada to its core,
00:07:44.900 to the point of creating radical change for the better,
00:07:47.620 would be for Alberta to officially move towards fully separating from Canada.
00:07:53.160 Without Alberta, the federation falls apart economically and they know it.
00:07:58.620 The question is though, will Alberta accept any other offers?
00:08:02.980 Canada is an anomaly for a modern democracy
00:08:06.480 in that other countries do not put into their constitutional framework
00:08:12.600 a process for a region of the country, province of the country
00:08:17.260 or a state of the country to leave, to declare independence.
00:08:21.060 They don't do that.
00:08:22.380 Canada has.
00:08:23.440 And it was in 98, as you know,
00:08:25.040 as arising from the Quebec referendum succession movement.
00:08:28.840 And so the Supreme Court of Canada has laid out a legal pathway
00:08:32.100 for a province to vote to declare itself to be independent
00:08:36.080 and then the steps that are necessary to complete the process
00:08:39.420 of that province becoming its own country.
00:08:41.780 And what's also unusual from an international norms perspective,
00:08:47.360 from an Alberta perspective or Canadian perspective,
00:08:50.300 is Alberta is the only province that has put in every step of the way legislation,
00:08:56.020 right from the Citizen Initiative Act,
00:08:58.080 to allow citizens to petition the Alberta government to hold a referendum.
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