Bruce Anderson

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.

I don't want to overstate it, but it is different from what we saw in 1980 and 1995.

And

It's why it's incumbent upon these kind of mainstream political leaders to find the right tone, to find the right language, and to center on the right arguments to diffuse this.

So it doesn't become some sort of a heated battle of political rhetoric and pugilism, because that could go wrong a lot of different ways.

All right.

Yeah, I think he is in some respect.

And I think the group that he was speaking to, I don't know who was there exactly, but the way that this conference has evolved over the years, it's typically, you know, people who care a lot about the policy aspects of conservative thinking and

he might not be wrong to think that those folks, unlike the 87% of the party membership who voted for Pierre Polyev to stay, are wondering if Pierre Polyev is exactly the right kind of leader for this moment facing this kind of liberal leader.

But I don't want to overstate that.