Bruce Anderson

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

with their employees, with the community, not to say, look, you can't even think about this, or this is a kind of an illegitimate idea.

I think that, you know, the prime minister was clear that people are, you know, people can think whatever they want and we have a process.

I think that's fine.

But that argument needs to be made because not everybody will understand that argument inherently that if you all of a sudden have gone from describing yourself as the

most business-friendly operating province within Canada,

to the one where the biggest questions exist around the regulatory and political and public policy framework, that that is going to cost people jobs.

It's going to cost businesses opportunities.

And nobody that I can see right now, with the exception perhaps of Jason Kenney, is really driving that message home.

And I think it should be.

Last point for me is the nine questions that Chantal mentioned.

I remember when