From Edmonton to one of the world’s biggest stages!
Good luck to the Acro Canine Crew on America’s Got Talent tonight. Alberta is watching, and we’re all cheering you on! 🐾🇨🇦
Funny how the people most desperate to preserve the status quo are these who profit from it.
Politicians telling Alberta we can't survive without their political system.
Meanwhile, the people actually building businesses, working trades and practicing professions are asking why we still need it.
Notice a pattern? #abpoli #cdnpoli #canada #forevercanadian
JUST IN: Danielle Smith breaks down the cost of a Temporary Foreign Worker family earning $60K/yr:
>$4K provincial income tax paid
> $26K to educate two kids
>$20K in family healthcare
Net cost to Alberta taxpayers: $42K/year.
The COST TAXPAYERS $11.5 in services for EVERY $1 they generate in tax revenue.
Tax payers subsize them so corporations can get cheap labour.
Alberta has roughly 260,000 non-permanent residents.
No wonder these questions will be on the ballot for Albertans in October.
This is not sustainable.
How do you plan to vote in the October 19 referendum?
Option 1: Stay in Canada and end the independence process.
Option 2: Continue the independence process and move Alberta toward a future binding yes/no vote on independence.
Share this to help increase the sample size.
For every $1 of taxes a guest worker generates, taxpayers are covering $10 in services. This is not sustainable.
Albertans have paid into their schools, hospitals and services their whole lives. It should be there for them when they need it.
That is why Albertans are backing our referendum questions on changes to immigration. This poll shows a supermajority now want Alberta setting its own immigration levels and ensuring that guest workers contribute to the costs they incur in our health care and education systems.
Just as any Albertan would expect if they were a guest in another country.
Read the fully story: https://t.co/VjYEpLKn2J
🚨 BREAKING: Nick Shirley just went FULL THROTTLE at the EPIC Islamic Center in Texas.
He showed up to film. Peacefully.
They didn’t debate him.
They didn’t welcome questions.
They hunted him down on their property and told him to get out.
A Muslim man follows him, pointing, demanding:
“Are you a Muslim?! This is NOT for you.”
Not “this is private property.”
Not “please stay on the sidewalk.”
Straight up: You’re not one of us. Leave.
Nick didn’t flinch. Camera rolling the entire time.
This isn’t a misunderstanding.
This is the mask slipping.
They built it. They control it.
And they just told America, on camera, that parts of Texas are off-limits unless you convert.
Cohabitation?
They just said the quiet part out loud.
Watch every second. This one is going to travel.
Ottawa decides Alberta energy doesn’t get to America.
So what happens?
The barrels have nowhere to go. Pipelines back up. Sites start shutting in. The camps empty. The 14-and-14 rotations stop. The guy who just signed for a truck and a house in Fort McMurray gets the call. So does the welder in Grande Prairie, the camp cook, the trucker hauling pipe, the Indigenous contractor whose company is building things for his community. One industry doesn’t “adjust.” It stops. 
Those are not abstract jobs. They are mortgages, kids in hockey, aging parents, the only decent wage for a hundred kilometres. When the cheques stop, the grocery store in town goes quiet. The diner that fed night shift closes. Houses that were never cheap start sitting unsold. People who built this province watch the equity they earned evaporate because someone in Ottawa needed a bargaining chip. 
Then the royalty money disappears. The $13–22 billion that actually pays for hospitals, schools, and roads is gone. Overtime for nurses vanishes. Classroom supports get cut. Rural roads wait another year. The province that already runs tight on volatile resource revenue now stares at a hole it cannot fill without gutting the services ordinary Albertans use every day. 
It does not stay in the oil patch. Calgary offices go dark. Service companies fold. Trucking volumes collapse. The housing market follows the jobs south. Young families leave. The tax base that held the rest of the province together shrinks. What starts as an export decision becomes empty main streets and kids growing up in a place that used to work.
Then it leaves Alberta. The United States finds other heavy barrels. Eastern refineries that depend on this crude and on U.S. refined product feel the squeeze. Diesel and gasoline get expensive or scarce just as winter comes. The TSX takes the hit. Pension funds that own the companies take the hit. Ontario and Québec discover that “leverage” means their factories and trucking fleets pay too. 
This is the tragedy: Alberta families, towns, and public services get used as the first and deepest sacrifice so Ottawa can look tough. The people who actually produce the energy, live with the winters, and fund the federation are the ones who eat the loss first and longest. That is not strategy. That is throwing your own people under the bus and calling it patriotism.
These Failed politicians are ruining lives.
There is a reason why Albertans want out of Canada.
They told Alberta we’re too weak to survive on our own.
Then Canada got into trouble with the U.S. and immediately started looking at Alberta’s oil and economy for leverage.
Funny how that works.
Keith Wilson's latest ⬇️
https://t.co/cVP2EEk021
Alberta won’t be pushed around.
Not by our government.
Not by any government.
We did what Ottawa should have done —
went to the US, kept it civil and open, and benefited.
Now Ford wants Alberta to tank our economy
for their political games.
He’s threatening to use Alberta’s resources to fight Trump.
No.
Alberta energy powers Canada’s economy.
Our industry provides jobs, income, and security to our people.
If you think Alberta will tank our economy in your political warfare,
you are wrong.
You made your bed. Lie in it.
Alberta — strong and free. ❤️
Dear America,
To President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, and the Americans sitting across the negotiating table from our government:
I'm writing this from Canada with a request I never thought I would make of another country.
Please help us.
Not our government. Us. The Canadian people. Please help us understand what is happening to our own country.
Our relationship with the United States is deteriorating. Our economy is hurting. Canadian and American families are worried about jobs, businesses, mortgages and the country we're going to hand our children. Yet through one of the most consequential trade disputes of our lifetime, ordinary Canadians are being left in the dark about what is actually happening.
We hear statements and vague explanations from our government. What we don't get to see or hear is what actually happened at the table.
Increasingly, Canadians are learning more about negotiations involving our own country by watching non-subsidized taxpayer funded American news and American officials.
Think about how extraordinary that is. Our media isn't working for us. Canadians are looking across the border to understand what our own government is doing. So today, I'm asking you to look back across that border at us.
Please don't leave Canadians in the dark. You have the perfect opportunity to shine the light on the truth and help Canadians to see it.
If you made Canada an offer, show us. If our government rejected something, show us. If Canada made demands that prevented an agreement, show us those too. Because we simply cannot trust what our own government and media is telling us.
Give us the timeline. Give us the documents. Give us whatever can legally be made public.
Then please do something unmistakably American...
Put it in front of the people.
Buy the television ads. Buy the newspaper ads. Buy the digital ads. Build a website containing the documents and put the address everywhere. Run a commercial during the hockey game if that's what it takes.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford bought advertising in your country because he wanted Americans to hear Ontario's message directly.
Please return the favour. Buy the ads in our country. Television, radio, social media...all of it.
Do it for Canadians who deserve to know what is being done in their name.
Americans understand something deeply that shouldn't stop mattering when you reach the 49th parallel: a government should answer to its people.
And people cannot hold their government accountable when they aren't given the information necessary to do it.
That is where we need your help.
For generations, Canadians and Americans have been neighbours in a way that goes far beyond politics. Our families live on both sides of that border. We trade together. We build things together. We defend this continent together.
Our governments can fight.
Our people don't have to become enemies.
So I'm asking you sincerely, and with more humility than Canadians are generally comfortable showing:
Please help your neighbours.
We aren't asking you to interfere in our politics. We aren't asking for money or special treatment.
We're asking you to turn on the light.
Give ordinary Canadians access to the information you already have. Speak directly to us. Trust us with the facts.
There was a time when Canada would never have needed another country to help its citizens understand what their own government was doing.
It pains me to admit that today, some of us believe we do.
And of all the countries in the world, there is only one I would think to ask.
America.
Our neighbour. Our friend. The country that has stood beside us through wars, disasters, terrorism, recessions and generations of shared history.
We're standing on the other side of that border now asking you for something remarkably small that could make an enormous difference.
Please show Canadians what happened.
• Put the documents in our hands.
• Buy the ads.
• Tell us what our own government will not.
Because right now, your Canadian neighbours need some help. And we're asking America not to look away.
@POTUS@DonaldTrump@jamiesongreer@JDVance@howardlutnick@bennyjohnson
What happened this weekend changed the Alberta Independence debate.
When 85% of your exports go to one country, but politicians 3,500 km away control the relationship with that country, you do not control your economic destiny.
That is an existential vulnerability.
#AlbertaIndependence
@_PA_KAG_girl I am lucky to be in alberta canada maybe there is hope for us. canada is in a very bad place and so many can't see it or not even allowed to see it