Gerald Butts

Colombian friend here about what I said about the Alberta domestic political situation.

But you can't, and this is where you have to be really careful because the facts about how Alberta has prospered

Over the last 25 years, the beginning of the century, the country produced about 2 million barrels of oil a day, and now we produce six.

There's no other country other than the United States in the world that has increased its production either in real terms or as a percentage of its own production at the beginning of the century.

That, in an ideal world where we had a federation where...

Frankly, people in Ottawa were proud and prouder of it.

And there was more cooperation between local forces on the ground in El

across the political spectrum, that would be a huge success story from one perspective.

A lot of my friends in the climate community would not see it as a huge success story, but it is by any objective measure a stunning engineering and economic achievement that Canada has gone from two million barrels a day to six in 25 years.

And you don't hear that anywhere.

In fact, most Canadians don't even know that happened.

And the reason they don't know it happened is because

It serves the politics of everybody involved to not talk about it.

And now we're at the end of a long period where we wish there was a more common shared understanding of what has actually happened in that industry over the past 25 years.

Yeah, really quickly, Peter, I think it is a positive sign.

I think the prime minister was elected to deal with Donald Trump, which is very different from make a deal with Donald Trump, which is what his political opponents want to narrowly constrain his mandate to be.

Those are very different things.

And part of dealing with Donald Trump is opening up.

for the country.

And that includes trade options, of course.