PJ The Belt - July 25, 2025


Trump Backs Alberta INDEPENDENCE DEAL？! U.S. Recognition Changes Everything!


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Length

9 minutes

Words per Minute

147.4323

Word Count

1,401

Sentence Count

127

Hate Speech Sentences

2


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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.

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00:00:00.000 You need to have 51% and more than 50%.
00:00:04.200 And so if you are having your referendum and you're at 51% and here in Canada,
00:00:11.240 they have discussion, oh, no, that's, you know, they don't have a big majority.
00:00:14.880 So, but if the U.S. is saying, oh, 51%, it's okay, you are independent.
00:00:20.100 Because to be independent, you need to be the recognition of other countries first.
00:00:25.100 That's very important.
00:00:26.020 And having a recognition by the U.S., that will be it.
00:00:31.720 That will be it.
00:00:32.240 You won't need, you know, all these Fed leaders, establishment leaders, you know,
00:00:37.760 like Polyev or Carney, oh, no, no, you just have 51%.
00:00:41.060 You're not independent.
00:00:42.340 If the U.S. said, yeah, I recognize that you're independent, that's it.
00:00:46.400 So that's a new development.
00:00:50.500 We didn't have that in 1995.
00:00:56.020 Hey, everybody, PJ here.
00:01:00.640 International recognition is one of the most crucial steps that any would-be country,
00:01:06.100 would-be nation has to go through.
00:01:08.380 This is like a stamp that adds legitimacy to the claim of nationhood of the would-be country
00:01:16.100 so that it is not considered a rogue or illegitimate territory in the eyes of the international community.
00:01:24.240 Getting it from any nation, any established nation-state, gives credibility to the independence process.
00:01:32.600 But receiving it from the United States, the most powerful nation in the planet,
00:01:38.780 that would be the ultimate game-changer.
00:01:40.980 When this happens, Alberta becomes a country on that day.
00:01:46.760 Alberta becomes the newest nation-state on that very day.
00:01:51.180 Let's get into the video.
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00:02:02.660 Independent Alberta would keep $20 billion for every new pipeline that's built.
00:02:08.280 So Keystone XL is coming, so we know that, so there's another $20 billion.
00:02:12.240 We've been to, like Dennis, myself, and others, have been to Washington to meet with the U.S. administration.
00:02:18.920 They will support Alberta independence.
00:02:21.020 They will be very excited about Alberta independence from the standpoint of U.S. national security
00:02:29.800 and freeing the Alberta oil reserves from a security of supply perspective
00:02:34.320 from control of the Chinese communists that govern Ottawa.
00:02:39.940 Oh boy, think about Trump.
00:02:42.400 So now if he gets Alberta and Saskatchewan, he gets the world's second, third largest reserve of oil and gas in the world
00:02:48.120 with an existing infrastructure tying it to his country.
00:02:51.720 He gets, you know, all the forestry both in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
00:02:55.500 He gets massive agricultural production capability, livestock and so on, grains, oilseeds.
00:03:01.080 One of the largest reserves, if not the largest, I'm not sure of that,
00:03:04.120 but one of the largest reserves of potash, which is fertilizer to grow fuel, food rather, food and other things.
00:03:10.900 One of the largest reserves of uranium for nuclear power and all of those things.
00:03:16.380 It's like, holy smokes, man.
00:03:19.300 Eastern Canada is just reckless in how they're treating the West.
00:03:24.220 The Alberta Prosperity Project is the not-for-profit organization leading the effort to see Alberta
00:03:30.400 become independent from Canada.
00:03:32.880 They've recently deposited the application to begin collecting signatures to have a referendum vote in 2026.
00:03:39.760 This is a grassroots-led movement with an army of motivated volunteers who hope to see their province become its own independent nation.
00:03:48.760 They've been having town hall meetings and rallies all over Alberta this summer
00:03:53.480 and will continue their education campaign in hopes of increasing support for a yes vote in the upcoming referendum.
00:04:01.200 Getting that 50% plus one is the ultimate goal, but just as important is what comes after.
00:04:07.720 And having international recognition will be very important for Alberta after declaring its independence.
00:04:13.400 The APP had a delegation visit Washington, D.C. to speak with officials in the Trump administration
00:04:20.260 to see whether they would support Alberta's effort in self-determination.
00:04:25.040 The APP states that the response was positive and supportive,
00:04:28.920 and they confirmed that the United States government would recognize an independent Alberta after a successful vote.
00:04:35.300 One of the main questions in this larger debate is whether or not Alberta should actually separate and become its own country
00:04:42.920 or whether or not it should at least try to become a more sovereign province inside a united Canada.
00:04:51.960 And I'm of the former view, I don't think, that trying to find a different path inside Canada is feasible.
00:05:02.800 Because of what Canada is now, what it's become, and maybe what it always is.
00:05:10.800 Well, always was.
00:05:12.920 But there are different opinions about this.
00:05:15.940 What was the, if you had to like, was it a general consensus or was it kind of all over?
00:05:20.300 It wasn't unanimous, but the feel that I got from many of the speakers,
00:05:26.260 I think I, I found myself thinking that I was on the same page as many of the speakers.
00:05:32.980 Yeah, yeah.
00:05:33.700 That the moment has passed now for trying to reconcile with the rest of Canada.
00:05:40.020 Because, well, for my own reasons for that is because of,
00:05:45.200 because Canada is a different country than a lot of people think that it is.
00:05:53.240 Over these past five years especially, now it was apparent before that,
00:05:59.160 but in many ways our disbelief got in the way of seeing what Canada actually is.
00:06:06.800 But the last five years especially has demonstrated to a lot of people
00:06:11.640 that the country that they thought that they lived in does not actually exist.
00:06:18.140 It's a different place with a whole lot of different characteristics
00:06:22.100 than the one they were thinking of.
00:06:23.640 Yeah.
00:06:24.000 The last five years have served as the ultimate wake-up call to many Canadians,
00:06:29.520 especially in the province of Alberta.
00:06:31.680 They've woken up to the reality that the country they grew up in no longer exists.
00:06:37.140 This place they live in today is but a shadow of what it once was.
00:06:41.480 Yet they see a portion of the population celebrating and even defending the decay.
00:06:46.900 The disconnect is obvious.
00:06:49.820 There are people in Alberta who still have some hope left
00:06:52.900 that Canada can still be reformed from inside.
00:06:56.120 But if we keep trying, Canada could improve its political landscape
00:06:59.820 to give Alberta a fair deal within Confederation.
00:07:03.520 Though the amount of people who think this way continues to decrease
00:07:06.900 as they realize that Canada does not want to change,
00:07:10.380 let alone for the benefit of Alberta,
00:07:12.340 it is important to still acknowledge that there are some who support Alberta's sovereignty
00:07:17.540 but view it as a mechanism to force change
00:07:21.140 and they wouldn't be wrong in thinking that.
00:07:23.940 If anything can shock Canada to its core,
00:07:27.100 to the point of creating radical change for the better,
00:07:30.260 would be for Alberta to officially move towards fully separating from Canada.
00:07:34.720 Without Alberta, the federation falls apart economically and they know it.
00:07:40.840 The question is though, will Alberta accept any other offers?
00:07:44.920 Canada is an anomaly for a modern democracy
00:07:48.700 in that other countries do not put into their constitutional framework
00:07:54.840 a process for a region of the country, province of the country
00:07:59.460 or a state of the country to leave, to declare independence.
00:08:03.140 They don't do that. Canada has.
00:08:05.680 And it was in 98, as you know,
00:08:07.260 is arising from the Quebec referendum succession movement.
00:08:11.060 And so the Supreme Court of Canada has laid out a legal pathway
00:08:14.300 for a province to vote to declare itself to be independent
00:08:18.280 and then the steps that are necessary to complete the process
00:08:21.700 of that province becoming its own country.
00:08:24.260 And what's also unusual from an international norms perspective,
00:08:29.580 from an Alberta perspective or Canadian perspective,
00:08:32.280 is Alberta is the only province that has put in every step of the way legislation
00:08:37.780 right from the Citizen Initiative Act
00:08:40.120 to allow citizens to petition the Alberta government
00:08:43.360 to hold a referendum
00:08:45.440 and referendum legislation to allow the referendum on independence to be held.
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00:09:11.540 To be continued...
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