Trump Backs Alberta INDEPENDENCE DEAL？! U.S. Recognition Changes Everything!
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with former Prime Minister Ralph Peters to discuss the reasons why Alberta should become independent from Canada and what it means for the future of the province. I also discuss the benefits of Alberta becoming an independent nation.
Transcript
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And so if you are having your referendum and you're at 51% and here in Canada,
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they have discussion, oh, no, that's, you know, they don't have a big majority.
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So, but if the U.S. is saying, oh, 51%, it's okay, you are independent.
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Because to be independent, you need to be the recognition of other countries first.
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And having a recognition by the U.S., that will be it.
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You won't need, you know, all these Fed leaders, establishment leaders, you know,
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like Polyev or Carney, oh, no, no, you just have 51%.
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If the U.S. said, yeah, I recognize that you're independent, that's it.
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International recognition is one of the most crucial steps that any would-be country,
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This is like a stamp that adds legitimacy to the claim of nationhood of the would-be country
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so that it is not considered a rogue or illegitimate territory in the eyes of the international community.
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Getting it from any nation, any established nation-state, gives credibility to the independence process.
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But receiving it from the United States, the most powerful nation in the planet,
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When this happens, Alberta becomes a country on that day.
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Alberta becomes the newest nation-state on that very day.
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Independent Alberta would keep $20 billion for every new pipeline that's built.
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So Keystone XL is coming, so we know that, so there's another $20 billion.
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We've been to, like Dennis, myself, and others, have been to Washington to meet with the U.S. administration.
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They will be very excited about Alberta independence from the standpoint of U.S. national security
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and freeing the Alberta oil reserves from a security of supply perspective
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from control of the Chinese communists that govern Ottawa.
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So now if he gets Alberta and Saskatchewan, he gets the world's second, third largest reserve of oil and gas in the world
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with an existing infrastructure tying it to his country.
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He gets, you know, all the forestry both in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
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He gets massive agricultural production capability, livestock and so on, grains, oilseeds.
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One of the largest reserves, if not the largest, I'm not sure of that,
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but one of the largest reserves of potash, which is fertilizer to grow fuel, food rather, food and other things.
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One of the largest reserves of uranium for nuclear power and all of those things.
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Eastern Canada is just reckless in how they're treating the West.
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The Alberta Prosperity Project is the not-for-profit organization leading the effort to see Alberta
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They've recently deposited the application to begin collecting signatures to have a referendum vote in 2026.
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This is a grassroots-led movement with an army of motivated volunteers who hope to see their province become its own independent nation.
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They've been having town hall meetings and rallies all over Alberta this summer
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and will continue their education campaign in hopes of increasing support for a yes vote in the upcoming referendum.
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Getting that 50% plus one is the ultimate goal, but just as important is what comes after.
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And having international recognition will be very important for Alberta after declaring its independence.
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The APP had a delegation visit Washington, D.C. to speak with officials in the Trump administration
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to see whether they would support Alberta's effort in self-determination.
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The APP states that the response was positive and supportive,
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and they confirmed that the United States government would recognize an independent Alberta after a successful vote.
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One of the main questions in this larger debate is whether or not Alberta should actually separate and become its own country
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or whether or not it should at least try to become a more sovereign province inside a united Canada.
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And I'm of the former view, I don't think, that trying to find a different path inside Canada is feasible.
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Because of what Canada is now, what it's become, and maybe what it always is.
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What was the, if you had to like, was it a general consensus or was it kind of all over?
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It wasn't unanimous, but the feel that I got from many of the speakers,
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I think I, I found myself thinking that I was on the same page as many of the speakers.
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That the moment has passed now for trying to reconcile with the rest of Canada.
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Because, well, for my own reasons for that is because of,
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because Canada is a different country than a lot of people think that it is.
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Over these past five years especially, now it was apparent before that,
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but in many ways our disbelief got in the way of seeing what Canada actually is.
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But the last five years especially has demonstrated to a lot of people
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that the country that they thought that they lived in does not actually exist.
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It's a different place with a whole lot of different characteristics
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The last five years have served as the ultimate wake-up call to many Canadians,
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They've woken up to the reality that the country they grew up in no longer exists.
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This place they live in today is but a shadow of what it once was.
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Yet they see a portion of the population celebrating and even defending the decay.
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There are people in Alberta who still have some hope left
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But if we keep trying, Canada could improve its political landscape
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to give Alberta a fair deal within Confederation.
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Though the amount of people who think this way continues to decrease
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as they realize that Canada does not want to change,
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it is important to still acknowledge that there are some who support Alberta's sovereignty
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to the point of creating radical change for the better,
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would be for Alberta to officially move towards fully separating from Canada.
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Without Alberta, the federation falls apart economically and they know it.
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The question is though, will Alberta accept any other offers?
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in that other countries do not put into their constitutional framework
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a process for a region of the country, province of the country
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or a state of the country to leave, to declare independence.
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is arising from the Quebec referendum succession movement.
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And so the Supreme Court of Canada has laid out a legal pathway
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for a province to vote to declare itself to be independent
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and then the steps that are necessary to complete the process
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And what's also unusual from an international norms perspective,
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from an Alberta perspective or Canadian perspective,
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is Alberta is the only province that has put in every step of the way legislation
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to allow citizens to petition the Alberta government
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and referendum legislation to allow the referendum on independence to be held.
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