Alberta Just OFFICIALLY BOOKED A Massive Independence WIN With US SUPPORT! 51ST STATE INCOMING!

All these young people, all they want is

a chance. That's all everybody wants.

Chance, feed their family, raise their

family the way they see fit.

>> The Alberta Independence Train is in

amazing shape, and it's moving forward

with incredible momentum. Volunteer

canvasers and signature collectors for

independence have now broken records in

the province of Alberta.

>> I think we are just people that are fed

up

>> and we want to make a better future for

our children. And I want my kids to be

able to have a home, a future,

grandchildren, kids.

>> I want them to prosper.

>> Yeah.

>> Alberta has just slammed the door on

Canada, securing a monumental victory in

its fight for independence. With

powerful backing from the United States

with record-breaking volunteer turnout

and a ground swell of support from

Albertans demanding to break free, this

movement is igniting like wildfire. Make

no mistake, this is no idle chatter.

It's a ticking time bomb. And the 51st

state talk is no longer a fantasy. It's

the undeniable future.

>> Promoting the Alberta separatist

movement have appeared south of the

border in Yuma, Arizona. Stay free

Alberta posted this image online calling

on snowbirds to show up at an event and

sign the petition aimed at triggering a

referendum. In a statement to CTV News,

elections Alberta says signatures

collected outside the province are

allowed. Over 7,500 volunteers descended

onto the streets of Alberta in the

middle of a brutal winter. Standing in

minus 20° temperature, knocking on

doors, setting up tables and parking

lots, doing whatever it takes to collect

the signatures that could legally

trigger a referendum and permanently

fracture the country known as Canada.

This is not political theater. This is

an organized, legally sanctioned,

constitutional, serious movement that

has crossed the point of no return. And

Ottawa is sitting in its comfortable

offices pretending it's not happening.

>> It's happening. A new ECOS poll shows

41% of Albertans agree that their

province will be better off as an

independent country. These are the

highest numbers so far for independence,

and we're just getting started. That's

certainly the highest number I have

seen. A groundbreaking poll just

confirmed what the volunteer numbers

already suggested. 41% of Albertans now

support full independence from Canada.

Not more negotiating power, not better

equalization deals, full separation. And

that number is historic because no

province in Canadian history has ever

hit that threshold and then walked it

back. Alberta just matched Quebec's peak

support level. And unlike Quebec,

Alberta does not need federal transfer

payments to survive. Alberta sends them.

That distinction changes everything

about what independence would actually

look like for this province. In Western

Canada, about the size of Texas, it has

rich oil deposits and it accounts for

about 84% of Canada's crude oil

production. Now, Carney's comments come

as separatist groups in Alberta ramp up

efforts to force a provincial referendum

on leaving Canada. To understand why

this moment has arrived, you have to

follow the money. Because the financial

picture is savage. In 2025, Albertans

paid an average of $13,743

per person in federal taxes. In return,

the federal government spent $11,125

per person in Alberta. That is a gap of

more than $2,600 per year. Every single

year, extracted from Alberta's economy

and redistributed across a country that

votes against Alberta's interests in

almost every federal election. It's

gained visibility amid frustration over

federal energy policy and long-running

disputes over oil and gas development.

Stretch that across millions of

Albertans over multiple decades and the

number becomes so astronomically large

that calling it an imbalance is almost

an insult. It is a systematic financial

drain structured into the very

architecture of Canadian federalism

designed to pull wealth out of the most

productive province in the country and

redirect it towards provinces that have

built political dependency into their

economic models. Alberta has been

subsidizing its own political

irrelevance for generations.

And you know what do we get for it?

We're mistreated. Our oil is referred to

as dirty oil. um you know, we're just

constantly disrespected on an ongoing

basis. They want to attack our culture

with uni, you know, things like

universal basic income where they're

literally going to destroy the

industrial industriousness of our

children. And Ottawa did not stop at the

bank account. The federal government

went after Alberta's economic engine

directly. Pipeline after pipeline was

strangled in regulatory red tape,

delayed for years, buried under

environmental reviews that somehow never

seem to apply with the same intensity to

projects in other provinces.

>> But the attitude is also very much like

Texas. Um, very rich in oil reserves, a

lot of cattle ranches, forestry. Um,

it's also a spectacularly beautiful

province, but they've always felt as uh

they've always had some grievances

against the the federal government. They

felt taxes are too high. Um, they want

to produce oil and and reap the rewards

of that to to to the the fullest extent

that that's possible. The Trans Mountain

expansion became the defining symbol of

federal incompetence. A project that

should have been a straightforward

infrastructure win for national energy

security. Instead, turned into a

financial disaster that cost billions

more than projected, took years longer

than promised, and still failed to give

Alberta the market access it needed.

While this was happening, Ottawa

introduced carbon taxes, emission caps,

and energy regulations with no

equivalent in the United States, no

equivalent in Saudi Arabia, no

equivalent anywhere that Alberta

competes with in global energy markets.

Foreign producers operate freely while

Canadian producers get punished for

existing. And the people paying that

price are Albertans.

Alberta is a wealth of natural

resources, but they they won't let him

build a pipeline the to to the Pacific.

I I think we should let them come down

the into the US and Alberta's a natural

partner.

>> Here's where the story stops being a

domestic Canadian political dispute and

becomes a geopolitical earthquake.

American officials have publicly

described Alberta as a natural partner

for trade and energy. And that language

didn't appear by accident. When senior

US figures use the phrase natural

partner in direct reference to a

Canadian province that is actively

pursuing independence, that is a

diplomatic signal wrapped in casual

language.

>> Held press conferences to tell people

that we're going to the United States.

We're exchanging information with uh

senior officials in the US State

Department over the aspirations of

Alberta uh for Albertans for

independence and uh talking to them

about the types of things that uh would

help Alberta move forward as a free and

independent country.

>> Alberta sits on the third largest proven

oil reserves on the planet. The United

States has spent decades, trillions of

dollars, and enormous military and

diplomatic capital trying to secure

reliable energy relationships in

volatile, distant parts of the world.

Alberta is sharing a border, culturally

aligned, politically stable,

English-speaking, and currently being

economically handcuffed by the federal

government in Ottawa that is

ideologically committed to transitioning

away from the very resources Alberta is

built on. From any strategic perspective

in Washington, Alberta's independence

does not create a problem. It creates an

opening.

>> But Albertans need to know that we are

going to be so much better off

financially when we leave. That that's

why we kind of lead with that message.

Imagine a nurse married to a policeman.

They're both married making more than

$100,000 a year in a free and

independent Alberta with no more federal

income tax. their family income and

their take-home pay is going to increase

by, you know, uh, you know, 40 to

$60,000 a year.

>> The 51st state conversation has moved

from being a talking point used to mock

separatists into a genuine economic and

strategic framework being discussed

seriously by people who understand

energy markets and continental trade.

Alberta already runs the overwhelming

majority of its trade southward into the

United States, not eastward into the

Canadian provinces that benefit most

from Alberta's federal tax

contributions. Obviously, the attitude

of the United States towards Alberta

independence, which incidentally is

overwhelmingly enthusiastic, um uh is

something that informs our movement

going forward. If the United States

said, "Oh god, we can't tolerate that.

flies in the face of, you know, the

communist new world order. Uh, we'll

slap a 300% tariff on Albertans if they

leave because we want you to remain

resource slaves of the communist

government in Ottawa. Uh, you know, it

would be a totally different

conversation.

>> The pipelines run south, the beef runs

south, the grain goes south. The

economic relationship between Alberta

and the United States is already the

dominant relationship in practical

terms. Ottawa's primary economic role in

Alberta's life has been regulatory and

extractive. Telling Alberta what it

cannot build, what it cannot sell, and

then taking a portion of what it does

manage to earn. Strip that away, and

Alberta's trade relationships don't

weaken. They operate without

interference for the first time in

decades.

>> They they they chafe against any climate

change policies that may come from the

federal government. They want to go it

alone. And so when when the rhetoric

around the 51st state or even now this

movement about establishing Alberta as

its own country um there seems to be

more a bit more momentum for for that uh

right now and they also have a premier

who is while not actively courting them

also not actively discouraging them

either. But reducing this to economics

alone misses the deeper current running

through this entire movement. Because

Alberta is not just fighting for its

wallet, it is fighting for its identity.

The values that built this province,

individual responsibility, resource

development, low government

interference, rewarding hard work

without apology or guilt. Those are

values that the federal establishment

treats as ideologically inconvenient.

Alberta would be a a natural partner.

So, uh let's keep the conversation

going. I mean, this is a pretty

significant um conversation to be

talking about so openly. Um and as

though it is a real possibility,

>> Ottawa does not just disagree with

Alberta's worldview. It actively works

to override it, pushing immigration

policies that strain provincial

infrastructure without provincial input,

funding social programs that reflect

Eastern Canadian political preferences

and billing Alberta for them. And then

staffing the federal regulatory

apparatus with people who view Alberta's

core industries as environmental

liabilities rather than national assets.

The cultural chasm between Alberta and

Ottawa is not a gap that better

communication can build. It is a

fundamental incompatibility that has

been widening for decades and is now

wide enough to drive a province through.

And quite frankly, the Trump

administration shows Albertans far more

respect than is shown to Albertans by

the government in Ottawa. Do you think

three of us could get a meeting with Tim

Hodgson to talk about the need for a

pipeline to the Pacific Northwest so

that David Eie can't continue to hold us

hostage? Of course not. because they

want us to be held hostage.

>> That incompatibility has historical

roots that run deep and painful.

Alberta's grievances with Ottawa did not

start with Justin Trudeau. They did not

start with carbon taxes or pipeline

delays. They started in the Great

Depression when the federal government

responded to Alberta's economic

devastation with bureaucratic

indifference while the province

collapsed. They deepened

catastrophically in the 1980s when

Pierre Trudeau, the father of the former

prime minister Justin Trudeau,

implemented the National Energy Program,

a federal policy that Albertans have

never forgiven and historians cannot

sanitize. The NEP directly transferred

billions of dollars of Alberta's oil

wealth to the federal government and

other provinces, deliberately

suppressing Alberta's energy revenues to

serve national political objectives. It

bankrupted businesses, destroyed

fortunes, and created a generational

wound that turned Alberta's relationship

with Ottawa from tense to poisonous.

Ontario start paying their own bills and

they can shoulder the burden of the

welfare, you know, the welfare economy

of the Maritimes for once. Albertans are

tired of it. And you know, you need to

be aware that there's a recent poll that

came out that now shows support for

Alberta independence at 41%. I actually

texted it to your producer. So, as our

petition campaign goes forward and

hundreds of thousands of Albertans line

up for miles into the cold January

nights to sign the Alberta, what they're

calling the Alberta Declaration of

Independence petition, then Albertans

are leaving. I mean, we're serious about

leaving. what Justin Trudeau's

government did to reopen that wound with

familiar tools, carbon pricing,

emissions regulations, and a rhetorical

posture towards Alberta's oil sector.

This sounds uncomfortably close to his

father's legacy. Albertans notice. They

always notice. Ottawa's response to the

current independent surge has been

exactly what Albertans expected and

exactly what accelerates the movement.

Dismissal. Federal officials have

consistently framed independent

supporters as fringe voices, political

opportunists or people who simply do not

understand how much they benefit from

being a part of Canada.

>> That there are Canadians that are upset,

especially in Ontario, that when Alberta

leaves that Ontarians for the first time

in their lives are going to have to pay

their own bills and pay the bills of the

Maritimes that we've been paying for

years. I understand that's upsetting to

people, but they need to understand that

Albertans are done. We're leaving. That

framing is not just condescending. It is

strategically catastrophic. Because

every time a federal minister waves off

Alberta's grievances with talking points

about national unity and shared values,

another wave of Albertans who were

sitting on the fence make their

decision. The federal government has had

decades to address the fiscal imbalance,

to provide meaningful relief from

overregulation,

to acknowledge the cultural and

political legitimacy of Alberta's

frustrations. Instead, it offered

lectures, carbon taxes, and the quiet

assumption that Alberta would grumble

forever, but never actually act. That

assumption is currently being dismantled

signature by signature across the

province.

These Albertans are obviously not

boycotting the United States like the

rest of Canada is. They're traveling,

enjoying, and spending money in the

United States, our closest ally. The

legal mechanics now in motion are not

symbolic. Elections Alberta's

authorization of the petition process

means that once organizers collect

100,000 valid signatures, a referendum

becomes legal and political obligation,

not a request. With 7,500 active

volunteers already deployed and a

province of millions seething with

generational frustration, that threshold

is not a question of if, it is a

question of when. And when that

referendum gets triggered, Alberta's

independence question moves from

domestic political controversy to an

international constitutional crisis that

forces every government, every trade

partner, and every geopolitical player

with interests in North American energy

to take a position. Canada stops being a

stable, predictable country on the world

stage and becomes a nation managing an

existential fracture in real time, in

public, and with the entire world

watching. But Ottawa has always viewed

Alberta and Saskatchewan as resource

colonies for Eastern Canada. Well, it

seems Albertans have finally had enough,

though. Support for independence has

never been higher. The movement to

separate from Canada is seen

unprecedented momentum. Ottawa built

this with every ignored petition, every

dismissed grievance, and every federal

regulation designed in Toronto and

applied in Calgary. They did it with

every equalization formula that drained

Alberta's surplus into provinc's

deficits. Every condescending press

conference in which Alberta's

frustrations were framed as

misunderstanding rather than legitimate

anger. All of it was a brick in the wall

that Alberta is now preparing to walk

through permanently. Canada's failure to

address these issues has fueled the

province's growing desire for

independence. The Americans are watching

with undisguised strategic interest, and

Alberta is no longer asking Canada for

anything. It is building the legal,

political, and economic architecture to

exist without it.