James Moore

Maybe it's 20%.

Maybe it's 35%.

I don't know.

But it's a large cohort of Albertans who are very unhappy with the status quo, who are very angry with things.

Maybe they're misdirected.

Maybe they're wrong.

Maybe there's... But also that group, let's say it's 30% of Albertans who are unhappy.

There's a portion...

10%, 15%, I don't know, who want to plant a flag and just start being a country, and they don't really care, and they're just focused on that.

That's not a group that you can do a lot with, but there are a lot of people who are going to lend themselves to a movement in order to flex some muscles and make some noise and have a process here that they think will have a good outcome.

I was trying to think about how Danielle Smith got to this point and what the proxy was for this.

And where did she come up with this?

The David Cameron example is, is, is the cautionary tale.

And that's what people keep flagging because it smells like, and it looks like that that's what's that's about to happen to the United conservative party.

I don't know that they'll get to Brexit, but, but that's what it looks like.

It says happening, but the asking Albertans, if, if you can ask Albertans a question, that formula is it's the, the, where I think that is drawn from is actually Stephen Harper.

When Stephen Harper, in a different way, but when Stephen Harper became leader of the Conservative Party back in 2003, 2004, the dominant social issue of the time that conservatives, social conservatives were really anxious about was the issue of same-sex marriage.

Stephen Harper didn't run for office talking about same-sex marriage.

He didn't care about like the issue, but the base of the party cared about the issue a lot.

In 2003, there was the BC Superior Court that said that gays and lesbian couples should not be denied marriage licenses.