A small community in Canada's conservative-leaning western province of Alberta welcomes US President Donald Trump's talk of annexing Canada as its "51st State", seeing as a path to getting their "freedoms back.” Trump is reviled across much of Canada but in Alberta -- whose economy hinges on oil -- 23 percent of people support the US president, according to a March survey from pollsters Leger.
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00:00And, you know, they're doing their thing with the Republican Party and all that kind of stuff, and you got the indicator.
00:10We actually have two sets of married psychologists.
00:13What is paramount is having our freedoms back.
00:19Yeah, and if that means joining the 51st, or being the 51st state, or joining the U.S., well then that's where it's at.
00:27Canada, we stand on guard.
00:39Hey pal, keep your hands off our minerals. We won't be bullied.
00:46They started the greatest country that mankind has ever seen. And it wasn't very many of them. It was just a few. But they believed it. And people said, no you can't beat the British Empire.
01:00Any downfall, you know, negative aspects of his life as well, for us to separate, to become 51, could really actually make this happen.
01:08My perspective on the tariffs is that they're designed to slow down economic activity, to deny the Communist Chinese Party access to the global commodity market,
01:18fueling their war machine, whether it's through Alberta oil or rare earth minerals or anything to that effect.
01:23And I think a little bit of short term pain and economic turbulence for the sake of the betterment of humanity is actually a good thing.
01:30I think even if we don't join as the 51st state, we need to reform. Alberta's had enough. We need to separate and become our own.
01:41Because we don't need them. They need us more than we need them.
01:44And we need them.