Carney WORRIED as Alberta & Quebec SEPARATION Begins!
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A few thousand people waved royal blue Alberta flags Saturday in front of the legislature in protest of Quebec declaring their province would be better off without Canada. What does that mean for the rest of the country? And what does it mean for Canada?
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Le miroir est le bouclier de la nation québécoise.
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It's being billed as a mirror and a shield for the Quebec nation,
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a constitution the CAQ says will protect the province's identity.
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It's important to advance the Quebec nation, says Premier François Legault,
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not just to wait for the big night of sovereignty or the referendum.
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A few thousand people waved royal blue Alberta flags Saturday in front of the legislature.
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Declaring their province would be better off without Canada.
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And by the way, Quebec, when we met with Paul St-Pierre Plamondin,
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the leader of the Parti Quebecois, towards the end of September,
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he also said when he becomes Premier next year and they have a referendum on sovereignty,
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that they will acknowledge Alberta's sovereignty subsequent to a referendum as well.
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So it might happen that as Quebec's sovereignty movement, independence movement, grows in strength,
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and probably Alberta's same movement grows in strength,
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you'll find federal politicians nervous, saying,
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I think we've been through that once it's done.
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So once Quebec declares independence, I think if Alberta declares independence, Quebec will follow.
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That's another thing that people are not paying a ton of attention to,
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because I think at this point in time, at least in Canada and internationally even,
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Alberta is, disturbantly so, getting most of the attention when it comes to the sovereignty topic.
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But Quebec has been moving, and I mean, they've been doing this for decades and decades.
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Their sovereignty movement is well more advanced than ours when it comes to institutionalization of it.
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I'm fairly certain that the governing party at the National Assembly,
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I can't speak French, at their National Assembly, they unveiled their own constitution, didn't they?
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Well, I think this is interesting to think about.
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But when King Charles was here for the opening of Parliament in the spring,
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the entire Quebec legislature, so all the parties in Quebec that formed the Quebec legislature,
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in a unanimous vote, voted to end the relationship with the monarchy.
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Mr. Secretary-General, for the result of the vote.
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So this motion is adopted, Mr. Deputy of Mataine Metapedia.
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Madam President, we would like to send the result of this motion
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to the Canadian Prime Minister and Buckingham Palace.
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and is leading massively in the polls right now,
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is very likely to become the governing party in Quebec.
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And he said to us at that meeting towards the end of September
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that when he becomes premier, he will remove the lieutenant governor as well.
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So if you think about Quebec, they never signed the Constitution Act 1982.
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and they're going to get rid of the lieutenant governor.
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Ostensibly, they're already a sovereign country.
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And Section 155 of the Supreme Court analysis of the Quebec secession reference
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would conceivably give them the right to declare their sovereignty unilaterally
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And so they're right now preparing a constitution for Quebec.
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And that constitution for Quebec basically will get them out from under federal control
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So at that point, you see where I think I'm going with this.
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that they are going to be putting forth in the near future.
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I don't believe it's released yet, but it's coming up.
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And like you said, the Parti Quebecois, which is the party that Paul Saint-Pierre is leading,
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And they've won the previous by-elections that they've had.
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So things are about to get very interesting in North America,
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particularly in Quebec and Alberta as referendums are imminent.
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At the rally, some like Colin Krumka believe federal equalization payments
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I've worked 44 years in the oil patch and the East has always
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And of course, the federal party, which is the Bloc Quebecois,
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which only exists in Quebec, will be working hand in glove with the Parti Quebecois
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to bring about a successful referendum if they actually want to actually go ahead with
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Because can you imagine what would Ottawa do if they just declared their independence
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But the implications already are interesting for us here in Alberta,
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because if Quebec is no longer part of a constitutional monarchy,
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then why are they getting $14 billion of equalization payments?
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And we give $14 billion to the equalization formula, you see.
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But Mr. Plamondin said something very important that I think your listeners need
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And that is that the reason they want Quebec to become a sovereign country is
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because they want to preserve their language, their culture, and they want to get out
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And Mr. Plamondin said very clearly, that $15 billion that Quebec receives is used to corrupt
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And we don't need that $14 billion, because when we're out from under all federal regulation
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and taxation, our fiscal capacity surplus will exceed that $14 billion.
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So we'll have more money available to us in a sovereign Quebec when the federal government
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I've said on this channel a couple of times now, at least, that I don't believe Canada
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I think we're going to be looking at the balkanization.
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And I take no pleasure in saying this, but I think we're witnessing the balkanization
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Regional differences are becoming more pronounced, not only culturally with Quebec, which obviously
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culturally, but financially, as in Quebec seems to be moving forward very firmly and
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So Canada is looking a lot like Yugoslavia before it fell apart.
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