Jordan Peterson’s Blunt Advice to Danielle Smith — Alberta’s Future at Stake

Economic Sovereignty

🔷 Q: How could Alberta gain better resource pricing?
A: Alberta could secure international prices for resources through full market access and use of the American dollar, eliminating current artificial limitations imposed by federal and provincial governments, particularly British Columbia's impediments to pipeline development.

🔷 Q: What financial benefits would Alberta gain from independence?
A: Alberta would eliminate transfer payments to Quebec and Ontario, reduce taxes, lower costs on goods, and end the expensive burden of subsidizing provinces pursuing socialist agendas while those same provinces moralize about sustainability despite Alberta's economy depending on fracking (which is illegal in Quebec).

Strategic Negotiation

🔷 Q: What should Alberta demand from Canada before considering statehood?
A: Alberta should demand fair treatment, infrastructure development, trade deals, pipeline approvals, and resource economy support from Canada, using Trump's statehood offer as leverage to force federal action on these specific needs.

Policy Independence

🔷 Q: What environmental policies could Alberta reject through independence?
A: Alberta could reject carbon taxes, net zero policies, and federal sustainability mandates that conflict with the province's fracking-based economy and energy sector growth requirements.

National Identity

🔷 Q: How would independence affect Alberta's cultural direction?
A: Independence would allow Alberta to reject multiculturalism policies, preserve Canadian identity, and value Alberta's history, economy, and people without federal cultural impositions.

Economic Growth

🔷 Q: What market advantages would independence unlock?
A: Independence would enable increased interprovincial trade, energy sector growth, international market access, removal of business deal impediments, and military defense support, creating conditions for a viable nation.

Economic Independence and Federal Relations

1. 🏛️ Alberta transfers billions of dollars annually to support Eastern Canadian provinces (Quebec and Ontario) through federal equalization payments while simultaneously facing economic restrictions from those same provinces imposing green agendas and carbon taxes on Alberta's resource sector.
2. 💰 Independence would deliver American-style economic benefits including lower taxes, reduced operational costs, and full market access without federal interference, allowing Alberta to retain wealth currently redistributed to other provinces.

Resource Development and Trade Policy

1. ⚡Alberta should reject international trade offers, net-zero policies, and carbon tax schemes that constrain its natural resource development and energy sector, which currently faces restrictions despite being economically viable and globally competitive.
2. 🛢️Federal moralizing and subsidy reliance from Eastern provinces creates unjust competitive advantages that actively hinder Alberta's energy development and economic growth potential.

National Identity and Political Strategy

1. 🇨🇦 Alberta's independence represents a necessary catalyst for Canada's economic and political survival, potentially reversing the country's trajectory toward global irrelevance and contempt from neighbors by shedding ineffective attitudes since the 1960s that weakened national prosperity.
2. 🗳️ The referendum and consideration of becoming the 51st U.S. state reflects Alberta's fundamental incompatibility with Eastern Canada's grievance politics, moral superiority, and socialist policies, with record numbers of Albertans signing for their own republic.

• 00:00 💡 Alberta's potential independence from Canada is fueled by frustration with federal overreach and a desire for self-governance, driven by economic grievances and a sense of disconnection from eastern Canada's socialist policies.
• 01:02 💸 Alberta's massive subsidies to provinces like Quebec and Ontario, which dominate federal power, are unjust and unproductive, especially when those provinces claim moral superiority over Western Canada.
• 02:20 💸 Alberta's wealth is being drained to fund social programs in other provinces, leading to economic dependence and vulnerability to US trade decisions.
• 03:25 💡 Jordan Peterson advises Danielle Smith to play hardball with Trump, threatening to negotiate a separate deal for Alberta, potentially even statehood, if Canada doesn't change its ways.
• 04:45 💼 Alberta's future prosperity depends on negotiating a better deal with Canada, free from subsidizing Quebec's interests and bureaucratic hurdles hindering its international business and pipeline projects.
• 05:36 💰 Danielle Smith is offered an alternative to Canadian multiculturalism and trade policies: join the US for economic benefits, lower taxes, and a culture that admires entrepreneurship.
• 06:57 💡 Alberta's economy is being unfairly judged and restricted by Eastern Canada, particularly Quebec, while Quebec benefits from Alberta's fossil fuel industry, creating a case for Alberta to assert its interests and potentially threaten separation.
• 08:04 💡 Jordan Peterson advises Danielle Smith to prioritize Alberta's economy by developing infrastructure & embracing trade, rather than appeasing international elites, to ensure the province's & Canada's future.
  • Jordan Peterson urges Danielle Smith to stop appeasing international elites and instead prioritize Alberta's economy by developing critical infrastructure, embracing trade, and rejecting excessive environmental regulations.
  • Canada's survival economically and politically requires shedding destructive attitudes, rekindling national pride, and pursuing independence through increased interprovincial trade, international markets, and a stronger military.