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Ep. 3381 Saskatchewan and Alberta Just Made a Huge SEPARATION Announcement!!! · Turley Talks

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  [SPEAKER_00]: The liberal globalist order is on its brink and awakening a new conservative age.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Dr. Steve Turley joined me every day as we discover answers to today's toughest challenges and explore the re-bondalization of conservative civilization.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is Turley Talks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, gang, it's me, Dr. Steve, your back porch professor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Here to help you make sense of a rapidly changing world and my is it ever changing particularly in the Great White North.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Saskatchewan and Alberta just dropped a nuclear announcement that could literally split Canada in half.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I want to talk to you about this because this is huge.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Literally.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While we were all sleeping, these two provinces, united in a way that hasn't happened since Canadian Confederation, and they're not asking author for permission anymore.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, make sure to stick me to the very end of this video because this isn't just about Wexit or the very possible Sassashin of Western Canada from Ottawa.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is about a very real political phenomenon that's toppled governments throughout history and it's happening right now in our very backyards.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So here's what actually happened that the legacy media is more or less burying.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On June, the government caucuses of Alberta and Saskatchewan met in Lloyd Minster in Alberta,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: for the first time in Canadian history as a unified political force.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So this wasn't just a friendly chat between two premieres.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This was a strategic alliance with one clear message to Ottawa enough as enough.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, a burdened premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan premier Scott Mo both made it absolutely clear that there are two provinces, which have a combined population nearly six million and it could draw seventy-five percent of Canada's oil production.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: are absolutely united in standing up for their own citizens as over and against the dismissive entitlement mentality of Ottawa.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So if you don't know, Alberta in particular, it's not just another Canadian province.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's an economic superpower.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, with a GDP of nearly three hundred and forty billion dollars, Alberta single-handedly generates
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  [SPEAKER_00]: fourteen percent of Canada's entire economic output while housing only eleven percent of its population Alberta produces four point two million barrels of oil per day that's one point five billion barrels annually to put down percent that that's more oil than most opaque nations produce
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Alberta's energy sector alone contributes about seventy billion dollars to Canada's GDP.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Without Alberta, the federal government in Ottawa would face a near twenty billion dollars shortfall every single year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Alberta is the golden goose of the Great White North.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And here's where it gets absolutely infuriating for all burdens.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Over the last decade, Alberta sent nearly two hundred fifty billion dollars more to Ottawa than it received back in federal spending.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Two hundred fifty billion dollars more than they received back.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Meanwhile, Quebec receives thirteen point two billion dollars in what's called equalization payments.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These are basically subsidies that allow all Canadian provinces to provide comparable public services at similar tax levels despite differences in their fiscal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: capacity, or despite Quebec getting an ordinary amount of money in the equalization, payments, Quebec continues to block Alberta's pipelines while living off of Alberta's wealth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So put simply, Alberta is subsidizing the entire Canadian confederation, and Saskatchewan and Alberta culturally very, very
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  [SPEAKER_00]: similar.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So the timing of this alliance is no coincidence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You may have heard, but Alberta is moving forward with an independence referendum for twenty twenty six.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They just lowered the referendum threshold from six hundred forty thousand signatures to a hundred and seventy seven thousand.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's guaranteed to be on the ballot in just months from now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Alberta Prosperity Project claims they've already gathered two hundred and fifty thousand signatures online.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The referendum question is ready.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Do you agree that the province of Alberta should become a sovereign country and cease to be a province of Canada?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes or no?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, at the same time, Saskatchewan is also working on their own referendum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They require a hundred twenty five thousand signatures for their referendum, the unified grassroots petition.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thus far, they've collected three thousand signatures, but it's growing every day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And Premier Mo is publicly stated he would not stand in the way of an independence vote.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The polling numbers are pretty stunning.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thirty-six percent of our burdens want separation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thirty-four percent of Saskatchewanians support separation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a lot of time to convince the other ten fifteen percent or so needed for a majority support.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now here's the part that will blow your mind.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What we're witnessing here isn't just politics.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a textbook example of what's often referred to as social identity theory.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this theory provides a compelling explanation for why provinces and territories pursue cessation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now, according to social identity theory, people naturally categorize themselves and others into social groups based on shared characteristics like ethnicity, nationality, religion, regional identity,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And once individuals identify with the group, they undergo three key psychological processes that can lead to secessionist movement.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One is known as social counterversation, where people classify themselves as belonging to distinct groups, in this case Albertans and Saskatchewanians versus central Canadians or autowins and so on.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this creates and us versus them mentality that becomes fundamental to how they understand their place inside Canada.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Secondly, there's what's called social identity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is where individuals adopt the norms, values, and behaviors of their regional group.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So in this case, Western Canadians begin to see themselves as fundamentally different from Eastern Canadians, developing a distinct identity centered on resource extraction, conservative values, and regional autonomy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then, thirdly, there's something called social comparison, where groups constantly compare themselves to others to maintain positive destinctiveness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, there's nothing wrong with this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And, apparently, we do it all the time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sports teams do it right, or new haven, pizza versus Chicago pizza.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when Western provinces perceive that central Canada receives better treatment, enjoys more political influence, or benefits disproportionately from federal policies,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It threatens their positive group identity and they're more likely to want to separate from that unfairness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things we often talk about on this channel is this massive global shift away from ideology to identity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This goes back to Sam Huntington of Harvard University and his class of civilizations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Huntington rightly argued that the twentieth century was the century of ideology.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The century, the Cold War, where the world was basically organized around two main competing ideologies, Western liberalism versus Soviet communism.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When Soviet communism died, Huntington argued that the world was going through a massive recalibration away from ideology and now to identity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In other words, if the twentieth century was all about what do I believe,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The twenty-first century is more about who am I?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What people do I belong to?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What culture do I belong to?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is why we've seen these massive, secessionist movements ever since the fall of the Soviet Union since nineteen ninety-one nearly forty countries have been added to the world map.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And of these reverendums passed in the next several months, we may be looking at two more.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The fact is
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The historical precedent is clear.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Every major secession movement in modern history followed more or less a common pattern.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The reigniting of regional identity that believes it's being slided by a federal other ends up leading to a unified resistance that ultimately leads to separation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We saw what Brexit
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  [SPEAKER_00]: separating itself from the EU, we saw it with Slovakia in the Czech Republic, and we saw it, frankly, most recently with the Donbass region in Ukraine, Donetsk and Lukons.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And what's so key here is that Alberta and Saskatchewan actually have the economic power to pull this off.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They control the resources, they have the population, and now increasingly they have the political unity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we're going to be keeping a very close line what happens in the next several months, but this pattern of independence that we've been seeing recurring over the last thirty years
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  [SPEAKER_00]: May indeed be getting two new independent states in the not so distant future.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Love you guys.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: God bless.
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