Bruce Anderson

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

Well, we all do, because we're all old enough to, when René Lévesque put his question on sovereignty association on the ballot, and a lot of people looked at it and said, well, it's a pretty soft question.

it's hard for people to feel like they're putting themselves at maximum risk if the proposition is that you'll have sovereignty, but you'll have association.

And it was a legitimate criticism of the question to say, well, but how could you be sure that you'll get association once you have sovereignty?

Well, Daniel Smith's questions make René Lévesque's question look like the hardest red line question ever written.

These are soft and squishy questions.

They are designed to give Albertans a chance to say,

Yes, I want Alberta to punch Ottawa in the nose a bunch more different ways.

Well, you know, for a lot of people, there's no negative consequences to saying, I want to give Alberta a little bit more power or I want Albertans to feel as though they've given more leverage to the provincial premier.

But they don't mean anything as far as I'm concerned.