James Moore

The form and style in which it's going to present itself from Alberta, structured as it is,

It's going to feel different.

It's going to look different.

The language will be different.

The aggressiveness will be different.

The fact that it's coming from the right is maybe a little bit different.

But tensions within Confederation and people who are saying that the status quo doesn't work, there's nothing new about it.

It comes, frankly, from the left and British Columbia.

It comes from Indigenous voices out here.

It comes from the environmental movement out here who says that

you know, the attempt by whether it's the Harper government or others to try to bulldoze through and to, and to push through existing title and, and political opinion is shows a candidate as doesn't work like there.

It comes in different forms.

When there was generally an informed consensus, elite opinion view that the Meech Lake accord was good.

And then Elijah Harper stood up with an Eagle feather and then Manitoba legislature and stopped at elite.

Like it's,

Saying no to the way that Canada works is kind of part of Canadian history and democracy.

It will be uncomfortable and it is uncomfortable and it is unhelpful and it's not good to the country.

But the tensions of confederation do need to be expressed from time to time.

And as much as I don't like it and I wish it wasn't happening, I think people need to recognize it's going to look and feel different because Alberta has a different culture than the rest of the country.

And it'll express itself in ways that will feel abnormal and really unhealthy.