Canada's PM BLOCKS ALBERTA EXIT？ - Parliament Debates INDEPENDENCE in 2025
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Summary
Calgary, Alberta separatists are calling for a referendum on whether or not to break away from Canada. Prime Minister Rachel Notley and Finance Minister Bill Morneau are on the brink of a showdown, and the country is on edge.
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I heard it at the doors more times than I can count.
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And I'll tell you plainly, Alberta staying in Confederation is not up to me, and it's
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It's up to the people of Alberta, and the Albertans know that they have options.
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If this House continues to insult, abuse, and neglect Alberta, if it refuses to treat
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our people and our industries with the respect that they've earned, then the future of this
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You know, things are getting real when Alberta independence is being talked about in Parliament
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For decades, Quebec's been the poster child for separation talk.
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They hoped this was just some temporary and fleeting protest.
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You've got organized groups and serious people behind it.
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Now let's address one of the biggest lies out there.
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That Ottawa or some special interest group can just veto Alberta's decision if the people
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And if 50% plus one say yes, that's the beginning of the road to independence.
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Stay independent or strike a deal with the United States.
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But it all starts with breaking away from Canada, first and foremost.
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Certainly, I'd like to turn to talk of making Canada an energy superpower.
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Senator Smith has said there could be a referendum next year.
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And the legislation around that is 170,000 people can put that on the ballot.
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Brian Mulroney once perhaps referred to rolling the dice with the future of Canada.
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Is it appropriate for that few people to put the fate of a G7 nation in the balance?
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And the province of Alberta, provinces make determinations on the rules governing referenda,
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And they can make determination of how they come into force.
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Determinations on broader issues of referenda on a federal level, including supported by
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Supreme Court decisions, are governed by the Clarity Act.
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But look, what we're interested in, what Canada's new government is interested in, what parliament,
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I think most parliamentarians are interested in, is building this country, not breaking it apart.
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It's working together, working with indigenous peoples, working with provinces, working with
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We have many, you know, we have this threat, this realising from the U.S. that regardless
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of what outcome we get, I mean, it matters what agreement we get, but it's changing the
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It is changing the outlook for the global economy in not just immediate, but the medium term.
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We have to take more responsibility ourselves to move forward, which is what we're doing
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with the one Canadian Economy Act and what's underneath it, which very much includes, and
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I'll finish on this, very much includes cooperation with the province of Alberta, the province
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of Saskatchewan, the province of British Columbia, all the provinces and territories, indigenous
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And we're having, I would say, very constructive discussions with Premier Smith and stakeholders
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in Alberta specifically, and we intend to convert those to actual projects, investment jobs and
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Mark Carney's strategy on Alberta independence has been real simple, pretending it doesn't
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Just ignore it and hope it goes away, but the poor guy can't escape it.
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Everywhere he goes now, the topic follows him like a shadow, and you can see it.
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His body language is arrogant and dismissive, but he's really irritated.
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Well guess what Mark, Alberta's not backing down anytime soon.
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People here are fed up and no amount of eye-rolling from a globalist banker is going to stop that.
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And then there's the media, bless their hearts.
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One reporter actually asked how such a small group of Albertans could threaten the status
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Here's the thing, Albertans aren't responsible for what happens to Canada after they leave.
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We've been asking, pretty much begging, for a fair deal for decades, and we didn't get
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And yes, if Alberta walks, it's game over for Canada.
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And deep down, the people mocking this movement know it.
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That's why they're desperate and that's why they discredit it.
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Here's a clip from the YouTube channel called Freedom Calendar.
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They stream many of the Alberta independence events across the province.
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So if you like to watch those, make sure to subscribe to their channel.
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This is from a recent town hall in Spruce Grove, just west of Edmonton, where David Parker
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from Take Back Alberta speaks about the momentum he's seen in the Alberta independence movement.
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Well, I actually think, and I said this to Vince earlier tonight, that there is more momentum
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behind this movement than there was behind the COVID freedom movement.
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There are more people on side with an independent Alberta than there were with the parental rights
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movement, where we were demanding that parents were the first authority in their children's
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Remember the Million March for Children across the country?
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Now startups often fail, I'm sure people have heard of that.
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Entrepreneurs often go bankrupt and Take Back Alberta was not much different.
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It was the first time I ever attempted to run an organization and many mistakes were made.
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But the thing about failure is that you learn from it.
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In fact, you learn a lot more from failure than you're ever going to learn from success.
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And one of the things that I've learned from the failures of TBA, and there were a lot
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of successes, and I've gone over them in many meetings, and we don't need to do that.
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But from the failures is that there's only one thing truly missing from our movement, leaders.
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I'm not talking about the people up here that are giving the speeches.
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I'm talking to people who will put a stake in the ground and say, I will put on a meeting,
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I will invite people, and even if nobody comes, I'll put my name on the line.
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Because here's the thing, all of our groups, everybody that spoke would be more than happy
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I have 40,000 emails, and I will invite every one of them to your meeting if you put on a
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There are hundreds of thousands of followers across Alberta on social media platforms that
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are very pro-independence that will advertise your meeting.
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You might get fined $140,000 because apparently holding these kind of meetings is political
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Bad things might happen to you, I'm not going to promise you that this is going to be easy.
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And if you want to be who we've been as Canadians and even Albertans for most of our lives, peasants,
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if you want to continue to be subservient wards of the state, to keep living your lives just
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I'm sorry, I want you there to give people access!
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So this is going to be 21 years after our period of time.
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Could we ask ourselves a little bit more happy?
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A couple weeks later, take a little lunch out of the front of us andեju.