PJ The Belt - November 26, 2025


Danielle Smith Just BETRAYED Alberta Independence!

Alberta Independence SCORES HUGE Win With New Allies! Alberta Independence SURGES as Pipeline Bribe FAILS!

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Jeff Rath Danielle Smith Mark Carney Prairie Westerners Justin Trudeau Rick Bell David Eby Alberta

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On today's show, we have a special guest on the show to talk about the Alberta government's response to the federal government's stand on Alberta's separation from Canada. We also have an update on the situation with the Grey Cup, and Danielle Smith's comments on Alberta independence. Finally, the UCP is recruiting separatists on social media to join the party.

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00:00:00.000 To be clear from the outset, our government will not be putting a vote on separation from Canada on the referendum ballot.
00:00:07.600 Basically, the nine federal laws that you said were impeding on oil and the oil and gas sector,
00:00:14.220 you said your deadline was Sunday, so for the Grey Cup.
00:00:18.240 Since it seems like the federal government is not going to meet your demands,
00:00:22.780 what are you going to do in response to that?
00:00:24.460 Well, we're still hopeful that in the next few days we'll be able to announce that we've come to an agreement.
00:00:31.220 But most importantly, there is no discussion about independence, no discussion about Alberta sovereignty.
00:00:39.900 And I think that was a deliberate choice.
00:00:42.440 We're hearing that it came down to a one vote decision on the executive to ignore those resolutions.
00:00:49.120 Look, man, I don't know what's in her mind.
00:00:56.080 I'm not a mind reader.
00:00:57.660 I'm Nostradamus.
00:00:59.280 I don't have a crystal ball.
00:01:01.200 All I can do is look at a politician's actions.
00:01:04.700 Their actions.
00:01:05.840 Because we all know they all make promises and break them all the time.
00:01:11.000 So what I try to focus on is what they actually end up doing.
00:01:14.860 And based on that criteria, I don't think she's on board with Alberta independence.
00:01:21.220 At least based on her actions for the past three to four months.
00:01:26.320 I think she's a federalist. 1.00
00:01:28.620 Honestly, I don't think she wants to see Alberta gain its independence from Canada.
00:01:34.540 It sounds like to me she believes Canada can still be saved somehow.
00:01:40.760 I mean, don't believe me.
00:01:42.920 Read her own words.
00:01:43.900 I will give credit where credit is due, though.
00:01:50.900 She's passed several laws that are actually conservative, like protecting our children from puberty blockers, protecting free speech.
00:02:01.060 And she has not increased taxes in a country where every other politician has done just that. 0.93
00:02:08.840 But I'm not going to sit here and lie to you.
00:02:11.240 Of course, there's the angle of thinking this is all part of her very secret secret plan to get Carney and the liberals to show their true colors and then throw her support behind the independence movement.
00:02:26.540 But again, I don't know what's in her mind.
00:02:29.840 All I can do is look at her actions and judge her by them.
00:02:33.480 So we're going to jump right into the report here.
00:02:35.960 But before we do that, if you support this video, I'm going to ask you to do me a quick favor and hit the like and subscribe buttons.
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00:02:46.680 So you got this tweet right here from Yukon Strong expressing basically my frustration when it comes to Danielle Smith and her lack of support, fortitude, strength, whatever you may call it, when it comes to Alberta independence.
00:03:01.100 Tweet goes, Danielle Smith says she will not be pursuing Alberta independence and says the UCP is a political party that is, quote, focused on bringing together two different cultures.
00:03:12.900 Which cultures you think she's referring to freedom versus serfdom? 0.83
00:03:19.800 Yeah, I mean, what two cultures?
00:03:22.900 We've established, at least Albertans, majority of Albertans that still have some common sense.
00:03:29.320 We've established that Canada and Alberta have irreconcilable differences, differences that just can't be worked around, differences that are not reconcilable.
00:03:41.280 So the rest of Canada, maybe except for Saskatchewan, like free stuff.
00:03:48.220 They like socialism.
00:03:49.860 After 10 years of liberals, they chose, again, the exact same liberals that put Canada in the precarious situation that we find ourselves in.
00:03:58.380 So, again, it's well established that Albertans, Prairie Westerners, because I'll include Saskatchewan in there, are just not compatible with the rest of Canada when it comes to policy, politics, social structure. 0.76
00:04:13.600 Anyway, here's the clip where she's being asked about the Alberta Prosperity Project.
00:04:17.660 One of the leaders, Jeffrey Rath, encouraging Albertans to attend a UCP AGM that is coming up later this month in November.
00:04:24.440 And this is what she had to say about it.
00:04:26.360 And unrelated follow-up, Mr. Jeffrey Rath of the Alberta Prosperity Project, he's openly recruiting separatists on social media to join the UCP with the intention of stacking the party's board with separatists at the next AGM.
00:04:43.600 Can you say whether Mr. Rath is presently a member in good standing?
00:04:46.720 And will you be vetting people who buy UCP memberships for any sort of sentiments relating to separatism that they've been expressing online or in other domains?
00:04:56.380 We think that these kinds of issues need to be put forward through a citizen-initiated referendum process.
00:05:02.840 We are a political party that focuses on the things where we agree.
00:05:06.120 Our political party is an act of political will, bringing together two different cultures.
00:05:10.520 And one of the foundational principles was that we will pursue Alberta autonomy within a united Canada.
00:05:15.520 And that is what I have been, that is my marching orders, that is the terms under which I recruited my candidates, that's the terms under which all of my caucus members got elected.
00:05:23.840 And unless that changes through a public referendum, there's no change in our party policy.
00:05:29.260 The issue is that you're not pursuing sovereignty, even within a united Canada.
00:05:34.080 You're not creating the conditions that will shield Alberta from the mess that the rest of Canada is turning into.
00:05:39.980 You're not creating our own police force, at least not fast enough as far as I'm concerned.
00:05:44.040 You're not creating the Alberta pension plan.
00:05:47.440 You're not collecting our own taxes.
00:05:50.320 These are all things that you should be doing right away.
00:05:52.640 These are all things that you partially campaigned on when you talked about the Sovereignty Act.
00:05:58.320 These are all things you should be doing right away, even if you believe that Alberta should stay within Canada,
00:06:03.400 but needs to be more independent from within Canada, whatever that means.
00:06:07.820 I personally don't think Alberta can actually be free and sovereign within Canada because Canada is a cancerous system.
00:06:15.920 It's just a system that will corrupt every single corner of this country. 0.81
00:06:20.920 And then Canada's constitution doesn't mean anything to the Liberals, and they've proven it time and time again.
00:06:26.020 If she came out and supported independence, she would only be representing a big majority of the people who put her in power to begin with.
00:06:34.260 Here's another clip of her at a recent press conference where she's being asked by Rick Bell from the Calgary Herald
00:06:40.220 in regards to David Eby, Premier of British Columbia, expressing his opposition to any pipelines,
00:06:48.560 any new pipelines coming from Alberta to British Columbia, British Columbia being on the coast,
00:06:53.780 Alberta not having access, any direct access to the coast.
00:06:57.540 And this guy, the Premier, the leader of that province, saying that he's not interested,
00:07:02.400 no pipeline is going to go through British Columbia, et cetera, et cetera.
00:07:06.240 The same story that socialists have.
00:07:09.380 They want money, they want programs, but they don't want to do the things that get us that money,
00:07:14.520 the things that get us that prosperity, that allow for their socialist programs to actually be operative.
00:07:20.400 Let's have a listen to what she had to say.
00:07:22.600 You've got Premier Eby, it's on all the TV stations this morning,
00:07:28.380 saying you don't know what you're talking about,
00:07:30.120 who says he's being excluded from the talks,
00:07:34.000 talks in very colourful language about you don't really know where you're going.
00:07:39.420 He lampoons your whole efforts calling it a $20 million communications project.
00:07:45.580 I mean, what, and then you've got Liberal MPs jumping in and scrums saying that they don't like it,
00:07:50.960 and the MOU hasn't even been signed yet.
00:07:54.060 That's exactly what I'm referring to.
00:07:56.220 There is no such thing as being free and sovereign within Canada.
00:08:00.800 Canada, at its core, is a system that does not allow for freedom or independence.
00:08:06.240 It just doesn't.
00:08:08.120 It doesn't.
00:08:09.700 When they impose something, it is the same in every single place,
00:08:13.660 maybe except for Quebec because they've actually got the memo,
00:08:16.360 and over time they've created,
00:08:17.840 even though they're not officially an independent country,
00:08:21.640 they've created pretty much every single item that an independent country has.
00:08:27.000 They have their own taxes that they collect.
00:08:29.180 They have their own police force.
00:08:30.580 They have their own pension plans.
00:08:33.300 So by the time Quebec decides to make it official by a vote,
00:08:37.580 they're already there.
00:08:39.080 They're pretty much already an independent country.
00:08:41.340 So if she's not making the moves towards independence,
00:08:46.140 if she's not starting, actually starting,
00:08:48.580 not just announcing it and kind of taking it one baby step at a time,
00:08:52.820 things are moving very quickly here in Canada.
00:08:55.860 Things are deteriorating very fast.
00:08:58.820 So if the opposition, the liberals, the socialists are moving so quickly,
00:09:05.420 they're moving so fast in the destruction of this country,
00:09:09.320 the destruction of our societies,
00:09:10.740 why is it that so-called conservatives are so scared to move just as fast or even faster?
00:09:18.740 It only took 10 years for Justin Trudeau to destroy Canada.
00:09:23.020 And you have conservatives taking three, four, five years in consultations.
00:09:28.060 What consultations, lady? 0.63
00:09:29.500 You want a majority government.
00:09:31.900 You should be imposing a firewall immediately.
00:09:35.000 You should be looking at kicking the RCMP out of Alberta.
00:09:40.000 There are some good officers in there.
00:09:42.000 Well, they can join Alberta police.
00:09:44.560 The good ones can join Alberta police.
00:09:47.180 In the meantime, get Ottawa out of Alberta when it comes to law enforcement.
00:09:51.440 Get them out of here when it comes to our revenue.
00:09:53.600 Get an Alberta revenue agency.
00:09:55.740 Collect our own taxes.
00:09:57.440 Get an Alberta pension plan.
00:09:59.360 You hear Mark Carney at press conferences in other countries.
00:10:02.640 He was in, I believe, Saudi Arabia recently bragging about the Canada pension plan
00:10:07.460 as if it was a part of the government revenue.
00:10:11.100 That's our pensions, not government revenue.
00:10:14.740 The Minister of Finance will lead a delegation of Canada's pension funds,
00:10:19.040 $2 trillion of capital, which almost begins to sound significant in the UAE.
00:10:23.820 $2 trillion in capital, the Canadian pension funds.
00:10:27.580 But that's how he views it.
00:10:28.740 And you better believe that's how he's going to use it as well.
00:10:31.560 So if she's not moving towards independence, it's because she doesn't want to.
00:10:38.940 So what is your reaction to the fact that there seems to be quite a bit of pushback
00:10:44.980 even before the announcement of the MOU?
00:10:50.880 I believe in Team Canada, and I hope they all do too.
00:10:54.140 This is what Team Canada looks like,
00:10:55.840 that when you've got provinces that don't have access to a shoreline,
00:10:59.120 we cooperate to make sure that we can get our products to market.
00:11:02.780 We used to be able to do that fairly easily in the past,
00:11:06.380 and we haven't been able to do it in recent years.
00:11:08.840 And that's the entire reason for the major projects office.
00:11:12.760 Except they don't cooperate anymore.
00:11:15.660 They don't cooperate.
00:11:16.880 Canada hasn't cooperated for a long time.
00:11:20.100 And this is the new Canada.
00:11:21.260 And the exact same people that were in power when Canada was ruined are still in power.
00:11:26.800 This clip right here is the ultimate example that Canada cannot be fixed.
00:11:31.520 That you cannot have a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada, or whatever the saying is.
00:11:37.420 It just isn't possible.
00:11:40.500 Laurentian Canada doesn't care about Alberta.
00:11:44.420 It never has.
00:11:45.380 It never will.
00:11:46.180 They don't even respect Alberta.
00:11:48.760 If they did, they'd be acting very differently.
00:11:52.000 Not like Mark Carney was acting in this clip here.
00:11:54.260 Watch.
00:11:55.060 One of my questions was, is this pipeline going to come?
00:11:57.800 So boring.
00:11:59.460 It's not actually.
00:12:00.940 It is.
00:12:01.380 No, but it is.
00:12:02.160 It is because it's, look, it's, don't worry, we're on.
00:12:05.040 They just asked him about a pipeline.
00:12:07.600 And he calls it boring.
00:12:08.940 It's so boring.
00:12:10.560 Talk about condescension.
00:12:12.560 Talk about immaturity.
00:12:14.380 Talk about disrespect.
00:12:16.180 For Alberta.
00:12:17.380 We're on it.
00:12:18.060 Like we're on it.
00:12:18.640 But there is this whole world.
00:12:21.300 Okay.
00:12:21.660 Hands up.
00:12:22.240 Who's working on the pipeline in this room?
00:12:25.060 Okay.
00:12:25.940 Isn't that a problem?
00:12:26.840 No, no, no, no.
00:12:29.540 Look at all the variety.
00:12:30.780 Like, Nav, like, does your, like, it's, we have.
00:12:37.160 Yeah, if there's more prosperity, they'll get more cell phone, cell phone services.
00:12:41.400 But look, look, okay.
00:12:42.660 So what's going to drive, one of the things with, yeah, don't worry.
00:12:46.340 We're on the, we're on the pipeline stuff.
00:12:47.800 Danielle's on line one.
00:12:48.800 Don't worry.
00:12:49.180 It's going to happen.
00:12:50.420 But, well, something's going to happen.
00:12:53.160 Let's put it that way.
00:12:53.820 So tell me again how we're going to have an independent Alberta within a united Canada.
00:12:59.920 Tell me again.
00:13:00.780 And this is all about one pipeline.
00:13:03.320 It's not like one pipeline.
00:13:05.080 It's going to resolve all the issues and all the grievances.
00:13:08.880 I'm not even going to call it grievances.
00:13:10.420 All the legitimate issues that Alberta has with the rest of Canada, like equalization
00:13:16.420 payments, like the fact that they take billions of dollars from Albertans, from hardworking
00:13:21.860 Albertans, and send it to other parts of Canada that don't even do so much as send a thank
00:13:27.940 you note.
00:13:28.780 It doesn't solve that.
00:13:30.320 It doesn't solve the problem with our Senate.
00:13:32.500 The fact that our Senate is unelected and it doesn't represent the population.
00:13:37.460 It doesn't represent our views.
00:13:40.800 The fact that you have tiny little provinces that don't contribute anything, like New Brunswick,
00:13:45.940 Nova Scotia, out in the East Coast, and they have more Senate representation than Alberta
00:13:51.700 does, even though Alberta contributes immensely more than those other provinces.
00:13:57.780 The fact that Quebec alone gets three, three Supreme Court justices.
00:14:05.980 How many does Alberta get? 1.00
00:14:07.460 I believe all of Western Canada gets two, and that's not Alberta alone.
00:14:12.040 That's all of Western Canada.
00:14:13.360 I believe we get two.
00:14:15.000 They get a lot more seats in Parliament.
00:14:19.460 A system that is designed to screw the West.
00:14:24.660 A pipeline is not going to solve that.
00:14:27.120 And that's what's happening here.
00:14:28.340 In my opinion, she's putting together several little things that she's going to bring to
00:14:32.660 the AGM to the meeting when she's going to face the party to say, well, we got a W.
00:14:39.720 We got to win.
00:14:41.100 We got a brand new pipeline memorandum.
00:14:43.440 And by the way, it's just a memorandum of understanding.
00:14:45.920 It's an MOU.
00:14:46.500 It's not like they're announcing a date for this pipeline to be built.
00:14:52.980 They're announcing a memorandum of understanding, whatever that means.
00:14:57.300 And so her hope is to bring that to the AGM and say, hey, look, I got us a win.
00:15:03.120 And then a couple laws, which I support, but the timing is the thing.
00:15:09.640 It's convenient timing.
00:15:11.200 She knows the AGM is coming up.
00:15:12.820 So she's created this law to protect free speech, which I support, called the Jordan 0.73
00:15:17.480 Peterson Law, which good on her.
00:15:20.280 And then she used the notwithstanding clause to protect children from the indoctrination, 1.00
00:15:27.340 from the rainbow crowd and all of that stuff, which is great.
00:15:31.000 It's great to see as a father.
00:15:33.300 Great to see.
00:15:34.960 But you can do all of that.
00:15:37.220 And then you can walk and chew gum at the same time.
00:15:40.660 You can do all of that and then move Alberta closer towards independence.
00:15:45.020 Even if you believe that Alberta should be independent within Canada, then make us independent
00:15:51.240 while we're in Canada.
00:15:52.860 I already mentioned how you can do that.
00:15:55.360 Why isn't she doing it? 0.98
00:15:57.300 Again, I don't judge based on maybe this is what she's doing.
00:16:00.840 Maybe this is her angle.
00:16:02.300 Maybe this, maybe that.
00:16:03.340 No.
00:16:03.760 What is she actually doing? 0.97
00:16:06.460 And we don't have our own police yet.
00:16:08.460 She announced that we would start kind of move faster.
00:16:12.260 Okay.
00:16:13.840 The degradation and decay of Canada is going very quickly.
00:16:18.900 Alberta should be moving quickly as well.
00:16:21.400 Get our pension in there.
00:16:23.300 Collect our own taxes.
00:16:24.840 This is my opinion.
00:16:25.720 I came to that conclusion based on her behavior, based on her actions.
00:16:30.320 I may be right.
00:16:31.520 I may be wrong.
00:16:32.960 What say you?
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00:16:47.980 Cheers.
00:17:03.740 I'll see you in the next episode.
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