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Chantal Hebert

πŸ‘€ Speaker
584 total appearances

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

He ran twice to lead the Conservative Party.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

He spent years making sure that he got there.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

I know Mark Carney wanted to be in politics, but he...

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

did the learning on the job and the preparing outside of politics.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

That makes him a bit different from any prime minister we've had before.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

None of them walked in the House of Commons for the first time in the job of prime minister.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

But Bruce lives in that head.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

He's not the only one.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

Good news for once.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

I watched the announcement that AirAsia was buying 150 planes from Airbus out in Mirabel.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

It's a big deal.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

It's $19 billion, but it's also buying an airplane that the Quebec government supported throughout its creation.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

They're not out of the woods yet, but this was the most encouraging sign that there is a future there.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

And what I found really interesting about the announcement wasn't so much that we sold all those planes, but why did we sell them now?

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

in part because that plane consumes less fuel than its comparative rivals.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

And that should be a signal to people who are saying, well, yeah, let's just do, and it's not just Iran, let's just, you know, drill, baby, drill, and forever we will do that.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

That choice was largely based on fuel consumption.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

and a significant difference between the plane, that became a competitive advantage.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

So before people say we will forever be driving gas guzzlers because we're North Americans and we're proud of it, and EVs were just an experiment taught off by the left on any given day, maybe it's time to take a walk to Europe, China, and India and see how those EVs are overtaking Europe.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge
Good Talk -- Do Canadians Care About Alberta?

fuel-based vehicles across the world.