00:00They should be grateful to us.
00:02Canada lives because of the United States, remember that.
00:05Even as Donald Trump talks about annexing Canada,
00:07some Canadians are campaigning to break away.
00:09In Alberta, a long-simmering secession movement has gained some traction.
00:13Alberta's had enough.
00:14We need to separate and become our own, because we don't need them.
00:17Their petition, now underway, could trigger a referendum this October on leaving Canada.
00:22An independent Alberta would be a Texas-sized prairie nation of 5 million people,
00:26sitting on one of the world's largest reserves of crude oil, but landlocked.
00:30Parliament suggests it's a long shot, but the stakes are high.
00:32Prime Minister Mark Carney is counting on Alberta's oil to help power Canada
00:35through its trade war with the US.
00:37But oil wealth also helps Canada support poorer provinces,
00:40something some Albertans resent.
00:41The activists need just over 177,000 signatures to force a vote.
00:45That's under 4% of the province's population.
00:47Alberta's leader, Danielle Smith, says she supports a stronger province within Canada,
00:51but legal changes that she made helped put this vote on the table,
00:54and plenty of her party supporters are keen on the idea.
00:56As Carney experienced with Brexit when he ran the Bank of England,
00:58surprises can happen, and they can have huge economic consequences.
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