PJ The Belt - Independence Just SURGED as MP BETRAYS Alberta!!

00:00:00.000 ladies and gentlemen this just happened today another so-called conservative member of parliament

00:00:06.360 for alberta decided to sell out albertans and join none other than the liberals in ottawa this guy had

00:00:13.240 previously resigned saying that he needed to spend more time with his family and that there would be

00:00:19.200 an election to pick his replacement as soon as possible but suddenly and out of nowhere this

00:00:26.880 dude makes a deal with mark carney gets a position in government and now he's a liberal and albertans

00:00:34.660 who voted for him in good faith are furious about this with many more wanting to sign the independence

00:00:40.940 petition just for that and i honestly think this move just guaranteed a majority of albertans will

00:00:46.880 vote yes in the referendum because this is further proof that our votes simply do not matter let's

00:00:53.920 break down what's happening on the ground in alberta shall we so this is matt genero he's a

00:00:59.380 conservative mp here in alberta specifically in a riding in edmonton which is alberta's capital

00:01:05.380 he was elected as a conservative in last year's general election and he's been re-elected multiple

00:01:12.680 times as a conservative and suddenly out of nowhere he just decided to become a liberal let's hear what

00:01:19.060 he had to say uh largely due to the family uh reasons uh but quite simply couldn't uh sit on the

00:01:26.260 sidelines uh after seeing what the the prime minister was uh vicious agenda he was undertaking

00:01:32.260 uh across the uh across the country and uh across the world and uh quite honestly it was the uh the

00:01:38.660 speech in davos uh where you you took uh everything head on and i think for me that's where a lot of the

00:01:45.460 the the the world changed i think it opened a lot of eyes uh for canadians albertans and batonians

00:01:51.140 just uh how serious does that so according to him the reason he betrayed all of his constituents and

00:01:56.580 his voters the people who voted for a conservative and now got a liberal is because of carney's

00:02:02.100 motivational speech out in davos it wasn't because he just got offered a government position that comes

00:02:08.660 with a hefty pay raise no no no it's got nothing to do with that he got inspired by carney's speech

00:02:14.980 from davos and he suddenly forgot that he needed to spend more time with family and here's a segment

00:02:21.060 from rebel news where ezra levant is explaining how most albertans are feeling about this let me give

00:02:26.740 you something that i thought of from from my uh history in politics i remember in 1998 when ralph

00:02:34.260 klein did something quite amazing and he called for an alberta senate election which was pretty cool

00:02:41.540 and i was just a young tadpole and i was the campaign manager for the reform party of alberta

00:02:46.420 and we had sort of a primary and we were campaigning hard and ralph klein had agreed to host this he was

00:02:53.140 the provincial premier reform party was running the candidates and right in the middle of this campaign

00:02:58.580 i mean weeks before election day jean cretchen showed everyone who was boss and those uppity 0.87

00:03:06.420 albertans by appointing a far-left activist named doug roche just right in the middle of the election

00:03:13.780 campaign his way of saying ah yeah ralph klein and you reform party you can have your play time you can

00:03:19.780 have your simulation of democracy let me show you how it really works around here from ottawa i'm going to

00:03:26.900 tell you who your senator is so ralph klein was alberta's premier and he chose to hold an election

00:03:32.740 for the senate here in alberta because in canada senators are not really elected they are selected

00:03:39.140 by the prime minister john cretien was the liberal prime minister at the time and albertans wanted to

00:03:45.140 exercise democracy for a change in this country by electing having an elected senator the premier ralph

00:03:52.340 klein was promoting this election for a senator and the liberal prime minister walks right in and selects

00:04:00.180 picks a very very liberal activist to be the senator for alberta basically letting albertans know look

00:04:07.940 you don't get a choice this is how things happen in canada you don't get a vote we pick them here in

00:04:14.260 eastern canada which goes to show that albertans concern in regards to canada and how our votes don't

00:04:20.180 matter is nothing new and this has that same vibe except for that at least it was on on ralph klein's

00:04:29.460 part it was a speculative ambitious sort of prototype it was like a hail mary pass or it was an experiment

00:04:36.820 in a way but here you have something more corrupt oh you actually did win you played by the rules and

00:04:43.620 one well we're going to re-engineer we're going to undo that this feels as demoralizing there is one

00:04:50.660 difference though there was no separatism referendum to harness that negative energy thereafter and you

00:04:58.660 know i always say that there's two two reasons for alberta to vote yes or to have this separatist

00:05:04.900 referendum the first reason is if it wants to become independent the second reason is the same reason quebec

00:05:12.260 uses it's the or else listen to us or else alberta has never had an or else when doug roche was

00:05:19.860 parachuted into the senate stomping on that election what were we going to do ezra brings up a very

00:05:25.780 valid point on this the number one reason why albertans should vote yes in a referendum is to

00:05:31.540 become independent for alberta to free itself from the shackles from the burden that is today's canada

00:05:37.940 but a number two reason is if you want to fix canada look at what's happening in our country

00:05:45.140 we vote for a conservative here in alberta and that guy just chooses to become a liberal

00:05:51.060 out of nowhere what kind of a system is that where you the voter choose a conservative you voted for

00:05:59.540 conservative principles and the guy just chooses a backroom deal over democracy and now you get a liberal

00:06:08.180 that's what you get you get a liberal even though you didn't you never voted for it if you want to

00:06:13.380 fix that issue if you want to get canada to actually change for the better then alberta independence will

00:06:21.380 force canada to negotiate an improvement in conditions look at quebec quebec is the perfect

00:06:30.340 living example of just that a province that has used the threat of independence the threat of

00:06:37.620 separation to get as many concessions as possible in my opinion we should actually leave canada and

00:06:44.820 become our own country and we'll be better off that way but if you want to reform canada if you want

00:06:50.340 to make canada better more fair for the for the west then you should vote yes in a referendum for

00:06:56.580 independence you and what army having that separatist button is the or else and i think mark carney is

00:07:04.100 taunting alberta with this yes he's he's taking a stick and poking and saying i dare you to do

00:07:09.620 something about it shut up and take it hey welcome to matt generu our new liberal welcome matt 0.53

00:07:15.780 this is how it works now just so gross i'm very mad if this were to happen in any other province

00:07:21.620 i'd be mad but there's a double taunt here and we're eight months away from a referendum and

00:07:27.300 they're double taunting alberta it's insulting here's what the mainstream media out in eastern

00:07:32.340 canada had to say in regards to this traitor and we are following breaking news coming out of federal

00:07:38.980 politics a former conservative mp is crossing the floor to join the liberal government who else but our

00:07:44.900 glenn mcgregor is following this development for us here glenn uh there's lots to get to here this is

00:07:50.980 an interesting development i see you nodding your head already can't even hide it we thought this

00:07:57.060 was going to be a slow day here on parliament hill fisa the mps aren't sitting this week the prime

00:08:01.300 minister's up in vancouver doing some announcements there so we thought wow this would be kind of

00:08:05.700 low-key day but no a little after 10 mark carney went to social media posted on his ex account that

00:08:12.100 matt generu had decided to join the liberal caucus matt generu's name might be familiar from the

00:08:19.300 discussions back in november about potential conservative mps crossing the floor of course

00:08:24.580 chris donterman who was an mp from nova scotia he left to join the liberals right before a key vote

00:08:31.380 on the budget and matt generu's name has been kicked around as someone else who might be interested in

00:08:36.340 doing that too generu never really said anything publicly about it but then after a few days of

00:08:42.500 speculation he announced instead of joining the liberals he was going to resign his seat he was going to

00:08:46.980 leave federal politics altogether he had been an mp since 2015 and representing uh riding in edmonton

00:08:55.140 previous to that he'd also been a provincial member of the legislative assembly in alberta so

00:09:01.300 long history in politics so we thought this spring he was going to quit he was going to create a vacancy

00:09:07.060 in the house and move on do something else but no he is staying according to carney's statement i'm

00:09:11.780 going to read to you a little bit about what carney posted he said i am honored to welcome matt generu

00:09:17.780 to our caucus as the newest member of canada's new government and as a new special advisor on

00:09:23.780 economic and security partnerships matt's leadership will contribute to strengthening canada's alliances

00:09:29.220 and trade partnerships advancing canada's leadership in global security and cooperation and building our

00:09:34.660 strength at home the world has changed and canada must change with it this is a time to come together

00:09:39.860 and together we will build a stronger future for edmonton alberta and all canadians this guy mark

00:09:44.820 carney is literally buying so-called conservative members of parliament he's bought three of them now

00:09:52.180 just giving him jobs giving him positions in government giving him power this this other guy

00:09:57.860 matt generu he was supposed to retire he was supposed to resign actually and an election was supposed to be

00:10:04.900 cold in his writing he said i want to spend more time with my family and suddenly i don't know he's

00:10:10.820 like no the speech in davos was good enough for me to forget about my family and get back in the game

00:10:17.700 because he was never about that it was always about what can i get these politicians have zero integrity

00:10:26.180 the game is rigged against alberta and saskatchewan against western canada and the only way to fix this

00:10:34.740 is through alberta independence you cannot trust federal politicians you can't trust politicians in

00:10:41.860 general which is why a referendum is the way to go we need to get alberta the hell out of canada

00:10:47.460 the potential of alberta completely separating from canada might just be what it needs to fix itself

00:10:54.980 not that albertans like myself are trying to do that we're just trying to become independent at this

00:10:59.620 point we just want to see an independent country of alberta that's a little weird about that statement

00:11:05.620 is this reference to jenneru taking on this role as special advisor on economic and security

00:11:13.620 partnerships i'm not really sure that sounds like it's a new role that cardi has created to give

00:11:19.060 jenneru possibly as an incentive to convince him finally after months of speculation to cross the

00:11:25.780 floor this is uh quite clearly bad news for conservative leader pierre paulia this is now

00:11:32.420 the third defection from his caucus include don tremal uh and uh michael ma a markham mp who uh shortly

00:11:41.700 before christmas just announced he was crossing the floor as well leaving the conservative caucus and

00:11:46.580 joining the liberals and now we have jenneru but only yesterday paulia was asked about how things

00:11:52.820 are going in his caucus take a listen to what he said how do you feel about how things are going in

00:11:58.260 caucus look overall i think we have a great team we're the only party that's addressing the real

00:12:03.220 issues that are affecting people's daily lives and whether it's on affordability the affordability

00:12:08.180 of food the safety on our streets and the self-reliance of our economy we have an incredible team of

00:12:13.300 caucus members who have been fighting for those things and we're going to keep doing that biggest

00:12:17.700 issue this guy has is he's not a real conservative he's liberal light there's no real conservatism in

00:12:24.260 canada in my opinion at least not not in elected officials i haven't seen an elected official in

00:12:29.620 canada who's a real real conservative like real fiscally conservative culturally conservative i haven't

00:12:37.460 seen him danielle smith has her moments where she's truly conservative but sometimes she's like 0.98

00:12:42.820 weird acting like a centrist sometimes even pandering to the left same with scat mo out in 1.00

00:12:48.260 saskatchewan most of the time he acts like a conservative but every now and then it's like

00:12:52.820 dude do you forget who voted for you i would love to see an opposition who's actually conservative

00:12:58.340 who talks about getting rid of mass immigration who talks about actually cutting taxes cutting red tape 0.62

00:13:05.140 it talks about being partners with our closest and most important ally the united states

00:13:09.780 but these people they just pander they try to pander to the left who are never going to vote for them

00:13:18.900 so the key question here is how does this affect the liberals drive to get majority status in the

00:13:23.140 house of commons well with some of the resignations of cabinet ministers like christian freeland

00:13:26.900 and bill blair a former cabinet ministers both of them resigning as mps uh the liberals are essentially

00:13:32.740 three seats short because that the the liberal mp who was elected in terbonne last year uh that

00:13:38.980 election was set aside so they're now three short so if they sweep those by elections and can hold

00:13:44.260 on to terbonne then they would have majority status when you include generu in their caucus but that's a

00:13:50.580 big if because terbonne is bloc quebecois territory has been for a very long time it was a

00:13:56.500 surprise the liberals won it this is going to put a lot of focus on that writing uh in quebec to see if

00:14:01.860 the liberals can win that seat get the majority status or potentially bring another mp over from

00:14:07.380 the conservative side to join the liberal caucus well the rats are jumping ship so i wouldn't be

00:14:12.340 surprised if another so-called conservative just jumps over and joins the liberals this is a reminder

00:14:19.140 for all albertans listening to this there is no fixing this issue by voting for conservatives

00:14:26.740 they're they today you vote for them as conservatives and tomorrow they turn into a liberal because of

00:14:34.660 convenience because they got a job offer all right the only way to fix this issue the only way to save

00:14:42.660 alberta and potentially canada if that's what you're looking for is to vote yes in an alberta independence

00:14:50.340 referendum and canada is going to have to change or else and honestly in my opinion canada might be

00:14:57.060 beyond fixing alberta should just become its own country all together here's a tweet from cory morgan

00:15:04.660 nothing says i did it for my constituents more than putting your x account on lockdown after crossing the

00:15:12.100 floor coward is afraid to hear from those who voted for him in good faith just another self-serving

00:15:19.460 liberal weasel that's that mp right there matt janet oh there he is he literally locked his twitter

00:15:30.020 account right after betraying his voters locked it so that people can't talk to him and hold him to

00:15:36.180 account unbelievable here's a tweet from israel event it is a form of corruption when a government

00:15:42.820 offers a secret inducement to an opposition member of parliament to cross the floor to join

00:15:49.060 the government but given the fact that the chinese communist party interfered in 11 ridings it is

00:15:55.060 clear that election integrity is not a liberal value oh yeah that's more than obvious liberals don't

00:16:01.540 give a damn about election integrity and mark carney will do whatever it takes to get that majority he 0.60

00:16:08.980 doesn't care if it takes bribing people he doesn't care if it takes offering government positions to all

00:16:16.660 conservative mps or any anyone else he's gonna get his majority this guy wants power to turn canada

00:16:24.180 into the new world order you know china's favorite partner right that is what he's doing and he's gonna 1.00

00:16:31.460 do it at all costs and the only question here is will alberta be a part of that mess so how are albertans on

00:16:39.380 the ground reacting to this news well we got some albertans calling to double down the efforts to

00:16:46.980 collect signatures in that writing because most of the voters for this uh now liberal p are angry furious

00:16:56.420 about the fact that they voted for a conservative and now they got a liberal mp so here's the tweet

00:17:03.380 showing the writing and the map of the writing um in in edmonton it would be a very smart move to get

00:17:10.660 lots of canvassers into this area of edmonton river bend asap for the next month see we're having a

00:17:18.100 crazy cold wave in alberta right now with the wind chill we're having 40 below minus 40 degrees celsius

00:17:27.140 which i believe is minus 40 degrees fahrenheit for those of you south of the border so it's really freaking

00:17:33.140 cold um yet there are albertans out there i've seen the pictures who are still collecting signatures

00:17:40.900 a lot of them indoors but still they're getting out of their house to volunteer with this inclement

00:17:47.540 brutal weather that we're having so this is the map of the writing um this is the capital edmonton

00:17:53.940 capital of alberta and uh we need to double our efforts to collect signatures here we should have

00:18:00.500 three or four pop-up locations because the people here and there's a lot of people here this is a

00:18:06.340 city of 1.3 million people i believe and this is a good chunk of it are going to want to sign the

00:18:13.620 petition they're definitely going to want to sign the petition to remind these people this is literally

00:18:19.220 the only the only recourse they have to remind the people in ottawa that voters matter that our voices

00:18:27.060 here in alberta matter here's a tweet from yeag wave conservative mp matt general is crossing the

00:18:33.540 floor to join the liberals and the top most liked comment says every conservative in edmonton riverbend

00:18:41.140 should be signing the independence petition that's what albertans are calling for on the ground here in

00:18:48.020 alberta is to double down our efforts to collect signatures in riverbend get albertans to sign the

00:18:57.380 petition now that they realize that our votes simply don't matter we vote for a conservative here in

00:19:03.380 alberta and suddenly we have a liberal here's another comment on that tweet 30 343 votes for this guy last

00:19:11.220 election if you get at least that amount man that's a kick to the shins and recall people are calling

00:19:17.140 for a recall people are calling to get signatures for the alberta independence petition albertans are

00:19:22.740 not happy about what happened with this guy here's a report covering the reaction from the conservative

00:19:28.740 party here in canada now with me now for more reaction is larissa waller conservative strategist and 0.94

00:19:33.860 former executive director of communications for premier doug ford larissa first of all let me get your

00:19:38.260 reaction to this it's the third conservative mp to cross the floor in the last several months and i

00:19:42.580 think in particular this one is interesting because back in the fall matt jenner said he was stepping

00:19:46.740 away from politics he was going to resign his seat and now he's a member of the liberals yeah he's full

00:19:50.900 of it well he was going to resign his seat and spend more time with family because he had you know

00:19:55.700 family i don't know pressures or or whatnot and i guess those went away um as they tend to do when

00:20:02.100 it's politically expedient for somebody i think matt jenneru fancies himself the savior of alberta

00:20:09.060 which is interesting uh listen he ran as a conservative a year ago uh sort of the others

00:20:14.660 who crossed the floor they ran as conservatives a year ago in matt jenneru's case he's been elected as

00:20:19.620 a conservative six times so when did his feelings change right and and he cites the the prime minister's

00:20:27.860 davos speech as as the big moment that you know the lights went on and and he became a mark carney liberal

00:20:35.140 um the prime minister gave a good speech in davos pierre paulia even said so there's there's very

00:20:40.420 little daylight between the conservative position on foreign policy and the liberal position on foreign

00:20:45.300 policy and it was a good speech but it was a speech and i think matt jenneru looking the constituents of

00:20:52.260 his very conservative writing in alberta in the eye uh when he starts knocking on doors he's going to get

00:20:58.100 a bit of a wake-up call that these people didn't vote for a good speech in davos they voted for a

00:21:03.940 conservative member of parliament to represent their conservative values and that's not what they're

00:21:08.660 getting does this change to you know peer probably have just got you know overwhelming support at his

00:21:13.300 leadership review at the conservative convention too that happened just a couple of weeks ago from

00:21:17.860 delegates in particular but with a third member now leaving caucus does this change you already think

00:21:23.300 conservative views about keeping him on as leader at this point i don't think it does i think the

00:21:29.620 the mandate he received uh from conservatives he got you know upwards of 87 percent support at

00:21:36.180 the mandatory leadership review that conservatives always say that leaders have to go through

00:21:41.140 after an election um the conservative caucus is united matt jenner remember left the conservative

00:21:47.380 caucus in the fall so it's not news that he left the conservative caucus it's news that

00:21:52.260 he's flip-flopping on his plan to quit so first he was a conservative then he wasn't a conservative

00:21:58.020 then he was in the conservative caucus then he left the conservative caucus because he was going to

00:22:01.620 quit being a politician and going to spend time with family now he's back being a politician but now

00:22:06.660 this time he's a liberal the issue conservatives have in canada is that they're not real conservatives

00:22:11.700 that's the biggest issue so there's no difference really between a liberal and a conservative in canada

00:22:16.900 a conservative in canada is a liberal light they're a little lighter version of a liberal that's really

00:22:23.700 all they are they're vanilla they tiptoe around the issues and uh and that's why a lot of people are

00:22:31.940 politically homeless people like myself there's no real conservatism the only thing left for alberta

00:22:38.980 conservatives for true alberta conservatives is to support a vote on alberta independence and to vote yes

00:22:46.100 on alberta independence and like i said previously and as relevant mentioned that in that clip number

00:22:52.020 one reason you vote yes to independence is to become an independent country but number two is if

00:22:58.180 you want to fix the country there's no fixing canada in any other way they could be like we we gotta try

00:23:05.540 it's been tried ask preston manning in the reform party who tried for years in the 80s ask stephen harper

00:23:15.860 who tried to reform the senate to get to actually make it an elected senate and he got blocked by eastern

00:23:23.380 canada as a prime minister you can't fix this system you can't fix it by voting for federal parties

00:23:31.380 the only way to fix it is to break it down is to it's to literally shock it to the core

00:23:38.420 and i think the only thing that could do it not that that's what i want happening i actually want

00:23:42.980 alberta to become its own country but for those who want to fix the country that might be the only hope

00:23:49.380 to actually affect real change reforms to the constitution of this country that is how we reopen the

00:23:57.780 constitution it's nearly impossible to open canada's constitution and modify it you want

00:24:03.460 to modify it you want to make changes make it more fair and equitable in the country for all provinces

00:24:09.780 have a real elected senate equal voting rights for everybody and equalization payments taking money

00:24:17.300 from alberta to give it to other provinces then vote for independence because you might just save canada

00:24:25.300 and make it better than it's ever been and that might just be what happens although the way i view

00:24:30.180 it we should just become an independent country because we would be much better off doing it alone

00:24:35.940 playing that on the doorstep of somebody who is struggling to pay the rent or somebody who can't

00:24:40.980 afford the groceries and the reason he's doing this is because mark carney gave good speech in davos

00:24:46.340 um if we look at that reality it's it's peculiar that somebody with as much experience and and honestly

00:24:54.500 the good experience in politics thinks that this is the path to success for him um never mind the

00:25:00.740 personal relationships that he's built over decades as a member of the conservative party that he's turning

00:25:05.220 his back on the integrity that he's lacking if i was a member of the liberal caucus i understand

00:25:11.060 partisanship i understand people being partisan and loyal conservatives it's harder to understand

00:25:16.580 that flip-flopping and that journey i just laid out that matt jennery's been on since november that

00:25:21.700 that's that that speaks to a lack of maybe credibility or integrity and we're gonna see

00:25:26.260 have to see how you know the next few months go and i wish him all the best um but but it's hard to

00:25:31.780 understand this one it feels like he's gonna have some tough conversations at the doorstep of his

00:25:35.380 constituents clearly about what for those reasons you laid out but let me just challenge you though you

00:25:40.340 know you talk about a united conservative caucus peer paulia stood in the house of commons yesterday

00:25:44.340 says that conservatives have a great team yet jamal giovanni he's had to in the same breath had to say

00:25:49.380 at least at this point that he speaks for himself and that he is not you know made a trip a solo trip

00:25:54.340 to the united states as well it feels like it's more divisive and not as united as it necessarily was

00:26:00.100 whether a couple of months ago even a couple of weeks ago so so the truth about being a conservative

00:26:05.380 and this has always been true has been true when stephen harper was the leader when andrew

00:26:08.740 sheer was leader and rotu was leader now pierre paulia was leader we don't all have to agree on

00:26:12.980 the same thing all the time and here we have a tweet from jason kenny former premier of alberta

00:26:18.900 a guy who's now turned himself into the ultimate federalist attacking albertans who want to become

00:26:24.260 independent uh here's his latest tweet doing just that for generations albertans have made astonishing

00:26:31.700 sacrifices to build canada to defend it and even to die for our country as the true north strong and free

00:26:38.740 but some rich canadians who spend half the year sunning themselves in arizona are going to take

00:26:44.100 a break from their regular golf and happy hour routine to drop by and sign a petition in a foreign

00:26:49.860 land to tear apart the country built by their ancestors for shame he says says the disgraced premier

00:26:57.300 who got kicked out of alberta for not keeping his word and actually acting more like a liberal than a

00:27:02.580 true conservative he's referring to this poster here where albertans in arizona are going to have the

00:27:09.700 chance to sign the independence petition at this location right here on the screen there's a lot of

00:27:17.620 albertans who travel south to arizona when it's really cold like it is right now literally minus 40 degrees

00:27:25.380 uh cold as hell blue brutal cold so they go down there for better weather and uh you can now sign

00:27:34.420 the petition at this location right here in yuma arizona so that it's more convenient uh jason kenny

00:27:42.900 this approves of that which i'm sure will make albertans want to sign it even faster which is why i'm

00:27:48.660 showing it on the screen so these are the details if you happen to be in arizona or anywhere near arizona

00:27:54.500 you can sign the petition while you're down there and show jason kenny who's boss well thank you for

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PJ The Belt - February 19, 2026

Independence Just SURGED as MP BETRAYS Alberta!!

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