The Alberta Project - May 25, 2025


Jagmeet Singh and the Alberta Separatist Movement

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Jagmeet Singh Danielle Smith Mark Carney
Alberta： A History of Separatism (Part 1) Alberta： A History of Separatism (part 2)

Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

160.92

Word count

361

Sentence count

10

Harmful content

Hate speech

1

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Summary

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Did Jagmeet Singh inadvertently stir up Alberta Separatism? Well, it's not quite that simple, but it's a good one to start off with, and it's certainly not one that you'd want to miss.

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00:00:00.000 Did Jagmeet Singh inadvertently stir up Alberta separatism? Now, I know it may sound a bit
00:00:05.420 outlandish, but hear me out. On December 5th, 2024, the Conservatives put forward a non-confidence
00:00:11.580 motion against the minority government, which if passed, would trigger an election. Jagmeet
00:00:17.540 Singh got in the way of this motion by voting against it. Why? Well, if that motion had passed,
00:00:23.420 it would trigger an immediate election, meaning parliament would be dissolved before February 25th,
00:00:29.480 2025. Why is that date so important? Because February 25th, 2025 marks Jagmeet Singh's
00:00:37.000 six years in parliament, making him eligible for his pension. So Jagmeet Singh, who is,
00:00:42.520 by the way, a very wealthy man, decided against toppling the at the time wildly unpopular liberal
00:00:48.280 government for the sake of his pension. Polling suggests that had the motion passed and an
00:00:53.320 election was called soon after, the conservatives would have won a landslide victory with more than
00:00:59.400 20 points ahead of the liberals the same party that stated alberta premier daniel smith's list
00:01:05.160 of demands as being reasonable meaning that albertan energy projects wouldn't be constantly
00:01:11.320 stifled had pierre's party come into power but they didn't thanks to jug meat what then ended 0.97
00:01:17.160 up happening was mark carney being shoehorned in as the leader of the liberals the man who went on
00:01:22.200 to run against the fear of trump rather than run for his would-be constituents canadians and then
00:01:29.160 went on to appoint a horrendous cabinet with yet again another activist as environment minister
00:01:36.040 yet another middle finger to alberta from the federal government albertans of course didn't
00:01:41.960 take too kindly to any of this and so the separatist movement began to pick up steam so much
00:01:47.000 so that a recent angus reed poll showed that 36 of albertans would be in favor of separating from
00:01:55.000 Canada. And remember, had Jagmeet Singh not voted against the non-confidence motion, the events
00:02:01.000 would have transpired very differently. Am I reaching a little bit? Maybe. But I need you
00:02:07.240 to reach for that like button, make sure to comment for engagement, and share with your
00:02:11.900 friends and family who want to be in the know.