Bruce Anderson

Well, you know, I think that we see a version of this in the United States over the last several years where large corporations decide that they want to stay out of political fire, except when it's specifically in their interest to get involved.

So they think that they have a fiduciary responsibility to say a carbon price on oil that would add essentially pennies to a barrel.

is a no-go situation, is something that would destroy investment interest in Canada, which I think is an exaggeration for sure, especially given what's been happening to oil prices.

So they don't mind getting involved when their argument is the federal government needs to do something different to make our shareholders do a little bit better with their investment.

But getting involved in something that touches on that kind of –

line of grievance that we see in parts of Alberta.

And I don't think we should overstate how big it is.

It's a meaningful size, but it isn't everybody.

And it isn't a majority.

It's a smallish minority.

They don't want to do that in the same way I think that a lot of businesses in the United States decide that they don't really want to get involved in something that feels like a culture war argument or a debate that

will turn some of arguably their strongest supporters into people who question whether or not they're taking the right position on a political issue.

I think that, you know, I refer to business and I sort of alluded more particularly to the oil and gas companies.

I think Chantal's point is well taken that they may have mixed feelings, given where some of their head offices are about the relationship with the U.S.

and the whole geopolitics of of oil.

I should have included small and medium businesses across Alberta.

I think that a lot of those business voices, to the extent that they've had grievances with federal governments in the past, especially liberal ones, it's been around...

the idea of governments being kind of indifferent to how business operates and what kind of public policy conditions it needs to thrive.

A lot of these businesses will face economic risks, even if it's indirectly in terms of a lack of flow of investment into the province.

And they should be more, in my view, there should be a lot more public conversation among small and medium businesses