Bruce Anderson

Yeah, I agree with everything that Chantal says.

Maybe a little bit different on the very last point about the relationship with Quebec, but that's more a function of I'm not as convinced as I was that there will be a referendum in Quebec.

And so I'm a little bit more tenuous on that point.

But the first point.

which is that Jason Kenney is doing a little bit of God's work on this issue, I think is absolutely right.

He's raising questions, raising concerns.

He's putting his kind of name and reputation and voice on the line in defense of what, for me anyway, and for most Albertans and most Canadians, is kind of a common sense perspective on what exactly would be achieved by independence.

He's also right that there are too few other voices involved.

I agree with Chantal's interpretation of what he probably meant by that, which isn't really about are there enough federal ministers, including the prime minister, making an issue out of this.

I think the first person who's failing on the job is Danielle Smith.

I think that the notion that you can be a premier of the province and not feel as though it's your responsibility to explain

just what would happen if this conversation about independence or separation became part of the discussion in financial markets around investment in the province became

a dynamic in terms of relationships with Indigenous groups and the challenges that would pose to the major projects that she and the federal government are interested in.

The fact that she's not really doing that, I think, is an abrogation of responsibility and one that she should be held to account for by Alberta voters.

I think Pierre Polyev is not anywhere near as active in using his voice.

The survey work that we did suggested that for that 13% of Albertans, typically younger urban and suburban people who are kind of on the fence about what would be the economic impact of separation.

Pauli Ebb and Harper are important voices for them.

They tend to be conservative voters, not as categorically conservative or as far right as those rural older grievance oriented separatist voters in Alberta.

They're on the fence and they do want to know what Pierre Polyev thinks about it.

And they do want to know what Daniel Smith thinks about it.