Althea Raj
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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And you can also see it as a way, like you can see the procurement decisions also as a negotiating tactic, like saying to the Americans,
If you don't want to play ball with us, this is the direction that we can continue to go.
I'm thinking, for example, of the surveillance planes.
We're thinking about the submarine purchase, what we're going to do with the fighter jets, et cetera, et cetera.
So I don't know.
We will find out in the months to come.
Well, it would be surprising if he didn't, frankly.
I mean, he told us at his portrait unveiling that Canada was worth fighting for.
So I think we all anticipated that sooner or later somebody would be asking him.
He didn't flesh out, you know, what role he was going to play.
And already there are a handful of his former caucus colleagues, Monty Solberg, Jason Kenney, who've started up their own group that is going to be, I understand, a third party advertiser in the campaign group.
But without having a fleshed out idea of what the federal government's response will be, like, I don't know if Stephen Harper is going to be doing his own thing or will he be part of a federal response or is the federal response going to be, let's leave it to Albertans to kind of make the case.
I have no idea.
From my understanding that that is not actually completely baked yet, maybe not even partially baked yet.
Will it have an impact on,
I the hardcore sovereigntists are not going to change their mind.
At least nobody that I have spoken to in Alberta is going to change their mind because of Stephen Harper convincing them to stay in Canada.
Where I think Stephen Harper and even people like Jason Kenney who are more polarizing than Stephen Harper can make a difference is by making the case that this is not a consequence-free question.
That if you are putting a yes that you want to have a future referendum, what you're really saying is you want more uncertainty in the province, that you want more uncertainty in terms of business investment, that you want to see the economy do poorly.
that you want this question to drag on for years and years and possibly decades and fuel more resentment vis-a-vis the federal government.
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