Darwin Terlson

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Nearly three out of every four containers unloaded at Vancouver and Prince Rupert leave B.C. and travel east through Alberta.

That is roughly 900,000 physical containers every year.

And when you combine B.C.’s continental dependence on Alberta with the Lower Mainland’s reliance on Alberta crude supplied to the Burnaby refinery for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, it is clear that Alberta has more leverage in this relationship than B.C. does.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Alberta can attract $13B from Meta while still inside Canada.

Imagine what Alberta could attract as an independent country with full control over its tax policy, energy policy, infrastructure, immigration, and trade relationships.

Alberta is not a small province.

Alberta is a country in waiting. https://t.co/70SdJ6Dt1R

[Darwin Terlson @DTerlson]

@myabradshaw78 He's an idiot

[Jeffrey Rath @JeffreyRWRath]

@ABDanielleSmith ‘s fixation on hypothetical pipelines misses the point.

Albertans aren’t going to replace her because of performative pipeline announcements.

They are going to throw her out of office for openly lying to her base and refusing to respect a super majority of the UCP membership by entering into a Net Zero, Carbon Tax, decarbonization MOU with Carney and for campaigning against DEMOCRACY.

Albertans expect a leader who stands up to the imposition by Ottawa of “preconditions” on our children’s future.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

B.C. wants a royalty on Alberta oil moving west.

About 900,000 containers from B.C. ports move east through Alberta every year.

For every $1 per barrel B.C. charges Alberta, a reciprocal toll would be about $900 per container charged to B.C.

Fair is fair. Alberta can do better.

[Rebel News @RebelNewsOnline]

Keith Wilson: Alberta's independence movement is gaining momentum

'We've raised well over a quarter of a million dollars in less than a month,' said @ikwilson on Thursday's episode of The @EzraLevant Show.

Alberta's independence movement is gaining ground this summer, said Keith Wilson, the King's Counsel lawyer now widely seen as the driving force behind the province's referendum push, on Thursday's episode of The Ezra Levant Show.

Wilson leads Let Alberta Decide, a third-party advertiser registered with Elections Alberta that has emerged as a central hub in the referendum campaign after a court ruling set aside an earlier petition drive led by the Alberta Prosperity Project.

"We've raised well over a quarter of a million dollars in less than a month," Wilson said, adding that his group is leading all fundraising among registered campaign entities.

A sold-out Stampede breakfast organized on short notice drew more than a thousand attendees last weekend, many of them newcomers to the independence cause. Wilson said a large sign campaign for Calgary and a new digital strategy are next.

Wilson raised concerns about the fairness of Elections Alberta's enforcement, noting that Unifor and Thomas Lukaszuk's Forever Canada campaign have not registered as third-party advertisers despite visible campaign infrastructure.

"No observer can look at the facts here and conclude that's what's happening," Wilson said of the elections body's claimed impartiality.

Much of the discussion turned to recent pipeline announcements between Premier Danielle Smith, Prime Minister Mark Carney and B.C. Premier David Eby. Wilson argued that the deals, rather than undercutting the independence movement, have accelerated it. He pointed to a new provision allowing British Columbia to toll Alberta oil moving through the Trans Mountain pipeline — a measure economist Jack Mintz has publicly labelled extortion.

"Let's call it what it is: extortion," Wilson said, citing Mintz's analysis.

Wilson also cited a Fraser Institute study released June 25, concluding that new carbon capture costs and industrial carbon taxes tied to the Pathways Alliance project would make Alberta's oil, gas and electricity uncompetitive against the United States, with costs applied to existing production immediately rather than only new output.

"These are self-inflicted economic wounds," Wilson said.

He estimated the combined cost of the proposed $40-billion pipeline and roughly $25-billion Pathways project at close to $70 billion, comparable to Alberta's entire annual budget.

Wilson pushed back on Calgary Mayor Jeremy Farkas, who released a video citing a Calgary Chamber of Commerce estimate that separation could cost the province's economy up to $62 billion a year. Wilson noted fewer than three per cent of surveyed businesses reported concern, while Meta's recently announced $13-billion data centre investment in Alberta undercuts the mayor's argument.

"He's obviously seeking favour and doing Ottawa's bidding," Wilson said of Farkas.

Wilson pointed to a Royal Bank of Canada study from two months ago that found more than a trillion dollars in investment left Canada under federal Liberal policy.

"Through independence we will create certainty," Wilson said. "We'll elect the politicians here in Alberta that will make the laws for Albertans, and if they don't do a good job, we'll unelect them."

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Alberta should seek a respectful, practical relationship with B.C.

But respect must run both ways.

B.C. needs access through Alberta just as Alberta needs access through B.C.

Independence gives Alberta the ability to negotiate that relationship directly, fairly, and from a position of strength. https://t.co/70SdJ6Dt1R

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

I look forward to monitoring the impact of yesterday's Alberta Independence telethon.

Here's the TPA funds, as per the last available financial report.

P.S. Let Alberta Decide (@LetABDecide) raised over a quarter of a million dollars from every-day Albertans in under a month. Tell me again how there's no support for Alberta independence.

P.P.S. Piss off with your bullshit cries of foreign interference. You can go see their financial reporting for yourself, and verify that every donor is from Alberta.

P.P.P. . If you're really concerned about foreign interference, audit Mark Carney.

[Jason Lavigne @JasonLavigneAB]

CANADA SUPPORTS SELF-DETERMINATION—UNTIL IT HAPPENS INSIDE CANADA

Over the last 50 years, people around the world have voted in referendums to leave an existing country and establish a sovereign state:

🇩🇯 1977 — Djibouti
Separated from France

🇸🇮 1990 — Slovenia
Separated from Yugoslavia

🇱🇹 1991 — Lithuania
Restored independence from the Soviet Union

🇪🇪 1991 — Estonia
Restored independence from the Soviet Union

🇱🇻 1991 — Latvia
Restored independence from the Soviet Union

🇬🇪 1991 — Georgia
Separated from the Soviet Union

🇭🇷 1991 — Croatia
Separated from Yugoslavia

🇲🇰 1991 — North Macedonia
Separated from Yugoslavia

🇦🇲 1991 — Armenia
Separated from the Soviet Union

🇹🇲 1991 — Turkmenistan
Separated from the Soviet Union

🇺🇦 1991 — Ukraine
Separated from the Soviet Union

🇦🇿 1991 — Azerbaijan
Confirmed its independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union

🇺🇿 1991 — Uzbekistan
Confirmed its independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union

🇧🇦 1992 — Bosnia and Herzegovina
Separated from Yugoslavia

🇪🇷 1993 — Eritrea
Separated from Ethiopia

🇹🇱 1999 — Timor-Leste
Voted to reject continued rule by Indonesia and became independent in 2002

🇲🇪 2006 — Montenegro
Separated from Serbia and Montenegro

🇸🇸 2011 — South Sudan
Separated from Sudan

Canada ultimately recognized every one of these countries as a sovereign state. In many cases, Canada established diplomatic relations, provided assistance and supported the new country’s development.

Canada did not refuse to recognize them because they were too small.

Canada did not tell them they could never establish institutions, negotiate trade agreements, operate a government or participate in the international community.

Canada did not make recognition conditional on proving that independence would be effortless, risk-free or immediately profitable.

Their people made a democratic choice and Canada accepted the resulting countries.

But when the same question is raised inside Canada, the language suddenly changes.

🇨🇦 Quebec, 1980

More than 1.48 million Quebecers voted for a mandate to negotiate sovereignty-association. Canadians and federal political leaders mobilized to preserve Canada, and the proposal was defeated.

🇨🇦 Quebec, 1995

More than 2.3 million Quebecers voted for sovereignty.

Once again, Quebecers were warned about money, trade, investment, currency, pensions and whether Quebec could afford to become a country.

🇨🇦 Alberta, 2026

Albertans are not being asked to immediately declare independence on October 19th.

They are being asked whether Alberta should remain a province or whether the Alberta government should begin the legal process required to hold a future binding referendum on separation.

It is a vote about whether Albertans should be allowed to take the next democratic step.

Yet many Canadians are already saying Alberta could never afford independence, could never build a country and should not even seriously consider sovereignty.

That exposes a remarkable double standard:

When people overseas seek sovereignty, it is called self-determination.

When Quebecers seek sovereignty, it is called a threat to national unity.

When Albertans seek a democratic vote, it is called reckless, divisive or impossible.

The new countries on this list did not all begin wealthy, stable or free from uncertainty. Independence required difficult negotiations, institution-building and major decisions about trade, borders, laws, currency and international relations.

But they created sovereign countries.

Quebec and Alberta are repeatedly told they could not afford to become countries.

Yet Canada recognizes countries around the world that began with fewer resources, weaker institutions and far greater obstacles.

The honest position should be consistent:

Either people have the democratic right to consider and pursue sovereignty—or they do not.

That principle should not disappear simply because the people seeking the vote happen to live inside Canada.

[Theo Fleury @TheoFleury14]

This should be a clear indication that Canada is under a communist takeover. Foreign interference by China helped the Liberals get elected 4 times in the last 15 years. The that illegitimate government passed illegitimate laws such as this one. This is called slow drip communism. It doesn’t happen overnight. Corruption and money laundering of tax paying citizens is their calling card. Textbook in every way shape and form.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is asking America for help with the wildfires;

"We need support, we need help right now."

Canada sent billions in taxpayer dollars around the world in the last from Ukraine to Gaza and other black hole DEI and climate change junk while doing nothing to take care of responsibilities at home and now begging Donald Trump for help?

[Bradshaw @myabradshaw78]

Mark Carney leaves the country while Ontario burns but Pierre is the problem. Mark Carney hires an American COO and Pierre is the problem. Mark Carney has Anita Anand’s department cozied up to Hostile Foreign Governments and Pierre is the problem. You see a pattern here,it’s Mark Carney,he’s the problem and he’s using MSM to cover it up..

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Ottawa takes Alberta’s money, obstructs Alberta’s industries and then tries to dictate Alberta’s future.

That arrangement is not working for us.

Visit https://t.co/xByVFGAOSg and watch the cost of the status quo increase in real time.

Alberta’s done waiting.

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

Remember that if you don't answer or otherwise not cooperate when Elections Alberta calls to verify your signature for the petition, you disqualify not only your signature but 700 others. Please answer when they call and be cooperative!

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

About 75% of the containers unloaded at Vancouver and Prince Rupert move east through Alberta — roughly 900,000 physical containers a year.

B.C. is not just a Pacific gateway. It is also continentally landlocked by Alberta.

And when that is combined with the Lower Mainland’s dependence on Alberta oil delivered to the Burnaby refinery for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, Alberta plainly holds more leverage in this relationship than B.C. does.

Alberta can do better. https://t.co/70SdJ6CVcj

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

The status quo has a price—and Albertans are paying it every second.

Billions leave Alberta while Ottawa imposes policies that weaken the very economy generating that wealth.

This is neither fair nor sustainable.

See the cost for yourself at https://t.co/xByVFGAh2I

[Michelle @chellebe]

@JeromyYYC Albertans have the right to vote in a constitutional referendum proposal to become an independent sovereign state NOTWITHSTANDING every body else. You Jeromy have been #WARNED several times about using your mayoral platform @cityofcalgary to politically #INTERFERE!😡 @ElectionsAB

[Keith Wilson @ikwilson]

⁨🎥⁩ ⁨Mayor Farkas didn’t do his homework. He recycled Ottawa’s fear campaign, leaned on a meaningless survey of 137 businesses, and ignored the billions still pouring into Alberta. Calgary deserves a mayor who defends this province, not one who parrots its opponents.⁩ https://t.co/70SdJ6Dt1R @JeromyYYC

[Bradshaw @myabradshaw78]

How many more American Democrats will Mark Carney hire because Mark Carney thinks there is NO CANADIAN worth any job in his government?? Carney is testing to see what he can get away with,it’s not going to end with 1,there will be more.

[Jason Lavigne @JasonLavigneAB]

A new message to Ottawa.