Bruce Anderson

It doesn't mean that it won't become

more visible and more of a preoccupation.

But I think the temperature set around this premier has this to say about that province is just not what it used to be back in the day, as they say.

Second thing I would say is that

I think people in Canada generally like the idea of Canada staying together.

I'm not sure that they're as passionate about it as I would personally want them to be.

But I think that's partly because people become kind of normalized to friction and a sense of...

there's grievance everywhere and maybe you can't solve for it all.

And maybe the world is going to change in more ways than we care to contemplate.

And so their ability to kind of become preoccupied with how do we keep this particular problem from happening is less than it would have been at another time.

And finally,

You know, Quebec had a grievance around the Meech Lake Accord.

A lot of people in the rest of the country didn't understand why Quebec was unhappy with that.

Alberta expresses a grievance towards the federal government.

And sometimes it sounds like towards the rest of the country in terms of the financial relationships.

I think it's probably fair to say that a lot of people in other parts of the country hear that grievance, but they don't feel like it's entirely merited.

In other words, that they think that, well, you know, Albertans are doing pretty well.

And these voices kind of come at the rest of us as though we're all, if we're not living in Alberta, we're freeloading off Alberta's resources.

And that rather than having a

the effect of kind of warming the rest of the country to, no, Alberta, don't go, it has a little bit the opposite effect.