PJ The Belt - February 24, 2026


If Alberta LEAVES — Saskatchewan LEAVES TOO


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Length

9 minutes

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152.25731

Word Count

1,376

Sentence Count

92

Misogynist Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So what's going to happen with Saskatchewan when Alberta votes to leave Canada?
00:00:04.160 Freedom, hope, prosperity for our children, for their futures.
00:00:07.900 Because right now in Canada, it's a sinking ship.
00:00:09.900 And if we don't take our little lifeboat and throw it out and get off all we can,
00:00:13.460 we're going down with the ship.
00:00:14.500 You see, there's a lot going on out here in the prairies.
00:00:17.900 Alberta and Saskatchewan, some parts of British Columbia.
00:00:22.880 See, my province here of Alberta is going to have a referendum later this year.
00:00:28.100 However, officially, we're going to have a referendum on independence,
00:00:32.160 whether a majority of Albertans choose to stay a part of Canada or become an independent nation.
00:00:39.260 And a lot of people wonder, well, what happens with Saskatchewan?
00:00:43.480 Saskatchewan being a province, neighboring province to the east of Alberta,
00:00:49.360 about an hour that way, 100 kilometers or so that way,
00:00:53.720 being that I'm in eastern central Alberta.
00:00:58.540 And more importantly, they're very similar to Alberta, culturally, politically, economically.
00:01:07.600 They voted over 90% conservative, just like Albertans did.
00:01:12.360 They are very conservative-minded, mostly a Christian province, just like Alberta.
00:01:19.500 And while Albertans are collecting signatures for a petition to get a referendum,
00:01:25.180 likely in October of this year, Saskatchewan is not far behind.
00:01:30.440 In a hall near Saskatoon, over 200 people have come to hear from the Saskatchewan Prosperity Project,
00:01:36.760 a group promoting Saskatchewan's independence from Canada.
00:01:40.440 The group's president, Brad Williams, focuses on Western alienation
00:01:44.440 and what he says are the economic and political benefits of separation.
00:01:48.900 You see, here in Alberta, the organization that has been pushing for Alberta to become sovereign
00:01:56.360 and independent from Canada, the Alberta Prosperity Project has been the organization
00:02:00.560 that's been pushing to get a referendum on independence.
00:02:03.880 They've been doing a lot of work for years to get us to this point.
00:02:10.220 A lot of volunteers, an army of volunteers, pretty much.
00:02:14.440 Then you have the Saskatchewan Prosperity Project, a very similar organization,
00:02:20.800 not only in name, but in intent.
00:02:23.840 Their goal is to get Saskatchewan to also separate from Canada.
00:02:28.820 Their conviction is that Saskatchewan will be much better off economically, culturally,
00:02:35.020 and politically calling their own shots and not having Ottawa determine how to run their jurisdiction.
00:02:44.440 It's pretty much the same issue that Alberta is having with the rest of Canada.
00:02:49.500 You got a population that feels disenfranchised, that knows that they're disenfranchised,
00:02:57.640 that their voice doesn't matter politically, even though they contribute heavily economically.
00:03:04.660 And that's the reality that both provinces are facing.
00:03:07.980 In some polls, it shows that the people of Saskatchewan support independence even more than Alberta.
00:03:12.600 So it's going to be very interesting to see how their independence movement progresses over the months to come.
00:03:21.220 Like I said, in Alberta, we're going to have a referendum in the fall.
00:03:25.080 The people of Saskatchewan are having town halls too, and I've seen attendance being consistent.
00:03:30.460 My belief is, and I strongly believe this is what's going to happen,
00:03:34.640 if and when Alberta votes to separate and we become an independent country, an independent nation,
00:03:42.860 the province of Saskatchewan is going to ramp up its efforts to join Alberta.
00:03:51.960 But what happens when Alberta separates, in my opinion, is that Saskatchewan, it's going to be a domino effect.
00:03:58.060 Saskatchewan is likely to follow immediately after, within a year, they would vote.
00:04:03.980 Not sure if they would want to join us and be one country with Alberta, some sort of Western Republic.
00:04:10.640 Some people talk about Buffalo, which is what the two provinces were supposed to be originally,
00:04:14.700 but the Liberals in Canada, even way back before 1905, which is when both Alberta and Saskatchewan were integrated,
00:04:23.980 pretty much annexed into the rest of Canada.
00:04:27.820 You see, a majority of Canadian provinces, where they voted to become a part of Confederation,
00:04:32.920 what they call the founding provinces, like, you know, take New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Ontario.
00:04:38.560 Alberta and Saskatchewan were part of something else called Rupert's Land.
00:04:42.160 And the Premier of the Northwest Territories wanted to make today's Alberta and Saskatchewan
00:04:46.940 a big territory, big land, big jurisdiction called Buffalo.
00:04:53.280 But the Prime Minister in Ottawa didn't like that, didn't like that idea.
00:04:58.400 God forbid they would have too much power over eastern Canada.
00:05:05.060 And that is how we have Saskatchewan and Alberta as two separate provinces.
00:05:11.040 They lose you guys in Saskatchewan, it's over for Canada.
00:05:14.340 We'll bring Saskatchewan along with us.
00:05:16.920 They're just like Albertans.
00:05:18.780 Yeah.
00:05:19.240 And we have so much in common.
00:05:21.640 They're like our little brother to the east, and we'll take them along with us.
00:05:24.860 Yeah, I mean, that is, you're talking about Montreal and places like that, going to be totally screwed.
00:05:29.420 The Saskatchewan Prosperity Project is following in the footsteps of the Alberta Prosperity Project.
00:05:34.940 Over the last five weeks, Williams has held public education sessions in close to 10 communities around the province,
00:05:42.220 including Swift Current, Prince Albert and Meadow Lake.
00:05:45.460 Key talking points include equalization payments, canola tariffs and immigration.
00:05:50.220 People we spoke to at this meeting say they want some kind of change.
00:05:54.000 So the question is, would Saskatchewan join Alberta and become one country,
00:05:59.920 or would they create some sort of association and choose to be separate countries?
00:06:04.820 You see, this wouldn't be anything new.
00:06:07.140 Canada is a very big country, and there's been even smaller countries in Europe that have gone to fragmentation like that.
00:06:16.120 Canada is not a very cohesive country.
00:06:18.420 You got competing interests all over the place.
00:06:21.260 The culture no longer unites it.
00:06:24.480 Not even hockey unites the country anymore.
00:06:27.260 Think Yugoslavia.
00:06:29.480 It got to a point where it just couldn't hold itself together anymore, right?
00:06:33.220 And a bunch of countries came out of that.
00:06:35.860 And I believe that's what's going to happen in Canada over the coming decades.
00:06:40.160 And Alberta is going to be the catalyst.
00:06:42.560 Alberta is going to be the spark.
00:06:44.520 Everybody thought it'd be Quebec,
00:06:45.580 but at this point I believe Alberta is much more likely to separate and gain its independence before Quebec.
00:06:54.660 Some people argue that Quebec just uses that as leverage,
00:06:58.680 the threat of separation to gain concessions and try to get Canada to give it more than they already have.
00:07:05.200 I mean, if that's their goal, I wouldn't be surprised because they already get like $14 billion in equalization.
00:07:14.200 A majority of that money and funds coming from Alberta, from right here in Alberta.
00:07:19.560 But when the people of this land say that they want to be independent,
00:07:24.620 that they want to have their own country, we're not trying to get concessions.
00:07:27.740 We're not trying to get special treatment.
00:07:29.920 It's because we're done at this point.
00:07:32.480 And a majority of Albertans that I speak to who support independence,
00:07:35.900 what they say is, it's time.
00:07:38.780 That's literally the main phrase that they say.
00:07:41.400 It's time.
00:07:42.600 It's been a long time coming, and it's just time.
00:07:45.780 We've had enough.
00:07:46.620 Canada's abused us too long.
00:07:49.980 We get taken advantage of.
00:07:52.020 And it's taxation without representation all over again.
00:07:56.080 And Albertans have simply had enough.
00:07:58.120 We want to have our own country.
00:07:59.880 We want to call our shots.
00:08:01.840 We want to have our own political representatives chosen here in Alberta
00:08:05.460 who determine what's going to happen in Alberta.
00:08:08.860 Not some bureaucrat 3,000 kilometers from here in Ottawa.
00:08:11.900 So the reality of this situation is that the people of Saskatchewan and Albertans
00:08:16.440 have been united by a common culture, common history, similar economies for centuries now,
00:08:24.720 for well over a century.
00:08:25.900 And it looks like they're going to be united again in the goal of self-determination.
00:08:33.620 Really happy to see the big crowd out tonight.
00:08:35.820 It was excellent to see.
00:08:37.740 A lot of enthusiasm.
00:08:39.040 I talked to a lot of people after as they were leaving.
00:08:41.860 And they're ready to get involved.
00:08:43.780 They're ready to get into their community.
00:08:44.940 They're ready to start forming chapters in their small towns.
00:08:49.360 Well, thank you for watching.
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