Bruce Anderson

They don't apply any direct pressure on policy questions.

They only apply this kind of inferential pressure for this premier at this moment in time.

And I don't think it's good public policy to run questions on that.

And I'm where Jason Kenney is.

The idea that this referendum should go away is the best idea.

It doesn't mean that people shouldn't have the right to have one and they probably will.

But it's a mess, for sure, to use your word.

Yeah, I think that the degree to which Canadians today would be interested, attentive to intra provincial rivalries is a lot lower than it was 10 years ago, a lot lower than it was 20 years ago.

doesn't mean that there aren't divisions within our society, but they tend to be a little bit more along generational lines.

The preoccupation tends to be a little bit more about broader geopolitics in the US, Canada, and the rest of the world dynamics, rather than the internal grievances between or among provinces.

I think that page has turned somewhat.

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.