James Moore

Interesting choice.

Very bizarre choice.

So you're right, the dust has settled in the sense that we now know what's in front of us, and what's in front of us is a mess.

Danielle Smith has never, by the way, not won an election campaign.

She would, but she hasn't been elected.

She certainly never proposed to do this when she ran for the leadership of the United Conservative Party.

And here we are dealing with this.

I think it's a really...

awful moment for Albertans who were hoping for a renewal of the conversation between Alberta and the rest of the country that has been gaining some progress.

They have had some wins under prime minister.

There's some things that Mark Carney will never do because he's a liberal that will therefore never satisfy big cohorts of the Alberta populace.

And that's fine.

But on some big wins for a liberal government, they're right there on the doorstep.

And you could possibly get some real progress on some big things.

And you're throwing it away.

And I think that's really unfortunate.

And I think that the damage of this is now you're going to throw uncertainty into the investment climate in Alberta.

And you're going to divide the population.

And the scars of this last a really long time.

These are not things that go away overnight.