How Alberta is Systematically SUBJUGATED & EXPLOITED by Confederation ｜ Mitch Sylvestre
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Learn English with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau. Justin Trudeau has promised a six-fold increase in the Canada Pension Plan for the elderly, but is it enough to pay for it? Is it enough?
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We desire and every Canadian desires that the great trade of the prairies shall go to enrich
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our people in the East, to build up factories in the workshops of Eastern Canada and contribute
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in every way towards prosperity. So how about this? We desire, every Albertan desires that
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the great trade of Alberta shall go to enrich our own people, our kids, our grandkids, to
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build up factories and the workshops of Alberta and contribute in every way to our prosperity.
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We're in a business arrangement. This is what the people in the East think about us. Screw
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the West. We'll take the rest. That has been the way it has been for 120 years. We want
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to know what's going on. If you were in a business arrangement with a group of people that didn't
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respect you and continue to abuse you, would you stay in that business arrangement? Confederation
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is working exactly the way it's designed to work. Understand this. Western Canada has a
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population of 11.7 million people. We have 24 senators. Atlantic Canada has a population
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of 2.4 million and has 30 senators. But it gets worse. Alberta has a population of 4.4 million
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people and we have six senators. We have twice as many people as Atlantic Canada and they have
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30 senators. How could we possibly get a decision go our way? And it's no different than the other
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side of the house. This is how the country's broken up. 42 seats in BC, 14 and 14 makes 28. That's 70. Add
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34 Alberta seats. That doesn't even add up to what Ontario has. Supreme Court justices. Two for all of
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Western Canada. Three for Ontario, three for Quebec, one for the Maritimes. And equalization payments.
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Well, I'll tell you how it works. Quebec doesn't put Hydro-Quebec in their balance sheets. So Alberta
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puts oil patch in their balance sheet and Quebec becomes a have-not province as a consequence of
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that. And we end up paying them a whole bunch of money. And 13.3 billion dollars and it's year after
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year. But here's a slide that I really want you to pay attention to. Those numbers are equalization
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payments per taxpayer. Look at the number in New Brunswick, 6,500 dollars per taxpayer. In PEI,
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6,100 per taxpayer. So I want you to understand something. They are buying votes with our money.
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That's exactly what they're doing. We give 47 billion dollars a year to Ottawa every single year.
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40,000 dollars per Alberta household. Canada pension. Let's go there. So first thing I want you to
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understand is you will not lose your pension. You will remain a Canadian citizen in a free and
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independent Alberta. The second thing I want you to see is who's paying the bill. Look at that big red
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line at the bottom left. That's what Alberta pays. BC pays 8.9 billion. Everybody else is a net taker.
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So understand this. Alberta seniors collect six billion dollars a year. Our taxpayers pay nine
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billion dollars a year to the CPP. We have a three billion dollar a year overage. That three billion
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dollars according to the CPP act is supposed to go into a fund for Alberta seniors. And that's since
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the 60s. And that's a rule that Ontario put in because it didn't want to pay more than its share.
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So what happened? We, according to the CPP act, could call back our over contribution plus interest
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anytime the Premier chooses to do that. So I'm asked a question. Why hasn't she done it?
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That number that Ottawa owes us today is 400 billion dollars. Now I want you to unpack that a little bit.
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Just understand this. CPP is claiming to get nine and a half percent so we'll round it off 10 percent
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interest. So just the interest on that money is 40 billion dollars a year plus a nine billion dollar
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contribution. Our seniors collect six. We've got a 43 billion dollar net on that. We can afford to give
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our seniors a six-fold increase in pay and not touch a principal.