00:00:00.000Just think about if you're in Western Canada, you've been told for a decade by the Prime Minister and the ruling government, the Liberals, we don't need pipelines.
00:00:13.560We're actually thinking of spending $60 to $80 billion on a high-speed rail that would serve Toronto, Peterborough, Montreal, LaValle, Quebec City.
00:00:21.320So we don't really, we're not even thinking about you.
00:01:41.620Okay, so maybe a point was made, and this could trigger a referendum as early as October when Danielle Smith has announced a referendum on other topics.
00:01:55.920It also could bring back memories of things that happened in Alberta in the early 80s, that they were coming out of a big oil boom.
00:02:03.040And they felt like Pierre Trudeau and the Liberal government, oddly enough, in the time in Ottawa in the early 80s, were treating them unfairly.
00:02:11.480And Premier Peter Lougheed at the time.
00:02:14.140And a lot of Albertans felt like they were being hard done by the federal government.
00:02:18.900And unfortunately, there has been time in history where it feels like everything is centered on the Toronto-Montreal corridor.
00:02:27.080and a lot of people in alberta now of growing province of five million plus and a lot of people
00:02:33.040west are like what about us when does some attention and money come to our part of canada
00:02:38.800you know it's interesting jim uh and and i will point this out the tpl local team and myself will
00:02:44.800be heading to uh edmonton in just a couple of weeks is your daughter home from uh school for
00:02:50.180the summer no no no no she lives there she lives there now full time yeah well yeah because she's
00:02:54.240doing her master's at the u of a so yeah she's got like she's there five or six days a week
00:02:58.600we're going to experiment you know what jim i i am uh delighted to accept her offer to take the
00:03:04.000crew and myself to dinner in edmonton she doesn't have that kind of money she does she does if dad
00:03:09.440sends it to her but uh here's some numbers that i i think are a little bit realistic because what
00:03:16.220we're talking about now actually having those spent some time in you know calgary and surrounding
00:03:22.700area in alberta recently uh several times for tpl the sense that i get even though and and our
00:03:31.020friend javon there makes some great points uh on the separatist side of things and very eloquently
00:03:36.780outlines what needs to happen for albertans to be happy by and large i don't get the blowback of we
00:03:44.560want to separate that you get historically from let's say quebec trying to make a a move well
00:04:06.700So that has always been hanging over the head of Confederation in Canada for the last 45, 50 years is Quebec's status within the nation and whether or not they would separate.
00:04:17.740The Alberta thing is new, but just think about if you're in Western Canada, you've been told for a decade by the Prime Minister and the ruling government, the Liberals, we don't need pipelines.
00:04:34.760We're actually thinking of spending $60 to $80 billion on a high-speed rail that would serve Toronto, Peterborough, Montreal, LaValle, Quebec City.
00:04:42.340So we don't really, we're not even thinking about you.
00:05:26.600And it seems like the wheels really are in motion.
00:05:29.060And Wab Canoe of Manitoba, who we're both big fans of, is determined to get that liquid natural gas pipeline from Alberta to Churchill, Manitoba to ship to Europe.
00:05:38.200So all of a sudden, after a decade of darkness, when it comes to Alberta and how they're viewed by Ottawa in the Laurentian elite, people are starting to open their eyes that, hey, they're an invaluable asset to this country.
00:05:49.920And now with everything going on with Europe, with Putin, with Trump, with the Persian Gulf, we can use their resources to fund our nation.
00:05:58.300Well, 58% to 68% of polled, and you know how I feel about the polls, polled in Alberta say that they are opposed to separation.
00:06:09.10065% say they would vote to stay in Canada.
00:07:57.260There was a full court press on really putting a lid
00:08:01.900on the separation discussion by the federal government,
00:08:07.320by the relations, new pipelines being approved.
00:08:11.820I think a lot of that was almost reactionary, you know, which makes you think Trump is basically saying, guys, just so you know, I was kidding.
00:08:33.300It would be better in my mind to see Alberta.
00:08:37.600And I bet that they would do this given the choice.
00:08:39.620If you said to Alberta, we can expand into Edmonton, we can expand near the oil fields and start processing and begin to send a finished product to at least our own nation, that might bind us a little tighter with Alberta overall.
00:08:56.940And the other thing is the separatist movement takes another quick hit right now because they're getting answers, as you point out, on other fronts, such as, okay, major projects that could benefit Alberta.
00:09:42.420And so when she's complaining, you know there's a problem.
00:09:44.500But the point being, though, that with all this extra revenue, it's going into the bank accounts of the province, and they may have gone from a deficit to a surplus in the course of a few months.
00:16:38.060I have a feeling that Alberta will open their own coffee chain at the gas station on the other side of the border where everybody goes to get their gas.
00:17:38.860I mean, I know all, and especially if you look at the cabinet for Carney, it's so heavily focused on the Toronto-Montreal corridor and all the power brokers and Philippe Champagne and Melanie.
00:17:51.840jolie and everyone else and and you're like well it's really hard to get the conservatives in the
00:17:57.300west inside your party uh based on the last 10 years and and alberta's had a lot to complain
00:18:02.900about over the last 10 years but and no one listened to them they were basically shoo shooed
00:18:06.720away and the stephen gilbo's of the world and wilkinson and trudeau said we don't need you
00:18:12.180you know there's no business case for natural gas and oil and now there's the biggest business case
00:18:17.860in the history of oil and natural gas.
00:18:20.900Do you remember that feeling where people were like,
00:18:22.840oh, Alberta's mega, make Alberta great again.
00:18:26.360No, that wasn't what was going on out there.
00:19:10.340It is the Bay Street of Western Canada.
00:19:12.180You've got the Bow Building right there.
00:19:13.500And in all the billions of trillions of dollars of investment for the tar sands, for the pipelines, for the buildings, for the infrastructure, it all flows out of Calgary.
00:19:25.100There's a lot of brilliant financial minds out of that city and out of that business community, Mike.