The Question of The Hour: Alberta Separation

We respond to a question we keep hearing lately: whether Alberta is really heading toward separation from Canada. We lay out why the talk is growing, from immigration and public benefits to oil revenue leaving the province, and we share how the stress of it all intersects with staying sober.
• repeated questions about Alberta separating while travelling
• immigration levels seen as too high and poorly managed
• anger about welfare, healthcare and other benefits being handed out
• demand for newcomers who work and build a life
• claims of rising disorder and safety issues tied to enforcement and licensing
• frustration over oil wealth, equalization-style transfers and blocked pipelines
• separation talk framed as a wake-up call through petitions and political pressure
• stress named as a recovery trigger while staying committed to sobriety
I'll be back next Friday with another Pure KAOS rant.

We can choose to give in to the KAOS, or we can forge a new path forward!

Transcript

Friday Intro And The Big Question

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome and happy Friday. Thanks for checking out my Friday Pure Chaos video. So I wanted to talk because when I was in Mexico, uh there was a lot of people from uh different parts of Canada and the US who were asking pretty much the same question. Are you guys separating in Alberta? So after hearing that about four times, got me kind of thinking, you know, sure a lot of people who don't, you know, well, even people who live in Alberta are probably wondering, why do you want to separate from Canada? So figured I'd make this video pertaining to that.

Why Alberta Separation Comes Up

SPEAKER_00 0:36

Because I obviously live in Alberta, and these are my thoughts on separation. I think a lot of the reasons why uh Albertans want to separate from Canada is that, and I'm speaking for, you know, Alberta here, so I mean I'm only one person, but this is my best guess.

Immigration And Welfare Anger

SPEAKER_00 0:57

I think it has a lot to do with the fact that our province and country for that matter uh has just been letting in a lot of um immigrants and refugees. A lot! Now, while I'm all for immigration, believe me, we need it, I think they're letting in the wrong fucking people. So I think that Albertans are just getting sick and tired of these people that they're letting in getting handed free unconditional health care, free dental care, uh, free money. Some of these families are making $80,000 Canadian a year. That's more than the average Canadian makes working full-time, working their ass off to provide for their family. So I'm assuming that, you know, they're fed up. Fed up with that. I know I am, uh, but like I said, I do believe in immigration. We need it. But uh, let's bring in, you know, the ones that actually want to work. Hmm? Let's bring in those amazing Filipinos, let's bring in Chinese, Japanese, they're amazing. But when you're bringing in a family of eight fucking people from wherever the hell, let's just say Middle East or you know, India, wherever, and they don't want to work and they're just gonna live off our fucking welfare systems. What the hell? Why are we doing this? Now, you know, like I said, there's you know, there's good and there's bad of each, but it just seems like the ones that they're letting into Alberta just have no desire to work. They are causing, you know, extortion. Some of these people are wearing gangs and they're causing all kinds of, you know, just shit, right? They can't drive worth a hair. And, you know, don't even get me started about all the semi-drivers who don't even have licenses or they share a license and they're making our roads unsafe as fu. So I think that has a lot to do uh with why Alberta is just fed up and wants to separate. They want control over the types of uh people that we let into our country, the type of immigrants that we let in. But again, I'm all for people that want to come here and work hard, build themselves alive, or even start a business. But if you're coming here to live off our welfare system and get free health care with your eight family members, kindly fuck off.

Oil Money And Pipeline Frustration

SPEAKER_00 3:14

Now, the other thing that Albertans are definitely pissed with, obviously, we have a very rich province. We have oil, we have a ton of stuff. So Alberta sends billions of dollars um, you know, to eastern Canada and stuff. And I think Albertans are just fed up with they are fed up of billions of our dollars from our oil going to these eastern eastern Canada uh when they block things like pipeline deals. They don't they hate Alberta, they hate our oil, and yet they sit there with their hands out taking our money. Albertans are fed up. So I think in a nutshell, those are the two major reasons why uh Alberta wants to separate.

Petition As A Government Wake-Up

SPEAKER_00 3:55

Now, that being said, I necessarily don't want to separate, but I do think that it's good for the government to get a wake-up call to show them that we've had enough. Now, hopefully, with uh, you know, this petition, if they get enough signatures, you know, hopefully that's a wake-up call for the government to be like, you know what, we should probably look at what the fuck we're doing with this country. We are, you know, we're more in debt now than we ever have been uh since the liberals have come into power. It's just absolutely ridiculous. Our immigration levels are unbelievably high, that it is affecting everything from schooling, healthcare, everything. So I think Alberta just wants to kind of take back their province. Um, you know, they're sick of feeling like minorities, they're sick of our money going to provinces that just don't support the oil that makes that money that we send to them. So that's my take. Happy Friday, everyone. Thanks for listening. And uh yeah, I'll be back next Friday with another Pure Chaos rant.

Stress Triggers And One Year Sober

SPEAKER_00 4:57

Now, one more thing. Obviously, this really didn't have anything to do with sobriety or recovery, but I would say my stress is a big trigger for me. So when I see our country doing this, yeah, it stresses me out. Am I gonna have a drink? No. I'm happily uh just over one year sober. So uh thanks for the rant, or thanks for listening to my rant, and yeah, happy Friday, everyone. Enjoy that beautiful weather if you are living anywhere in southern Alberta.