James Moore

daily demonstrations of competence and strength in the benefits of Canada.

And it's the small things, it's the big things.

It's the, you know, opening a new passport office.

Yes, it's progress on the MOU, but I just think it's daily demonstrations of competence and confidence in the country.

And you see that in the underlying polling data, Mark Carney's personal popularity, the relative popularity of the Liberal Party in the province of Alberta right now, in spite of all these forces against it.

But yeah, he's the prime minister of the country.

And no prime minister is going to want to have this as a pockmark on their time as prime minister.

So he has to be one of the leading faces of this.

But I think with humility and he can't.

And another thing, too, is what has to be washed away from the federalist side of all this is condescension.

Condescension has to go away.

Just as Newfoundlanders have had, just as Quebecers have had, just as British Columbians have had, just as Indigenous Canadians have had, there's a reason why we are where we are.

And it's not all the conspiracy theory and skullduggery and nonsense and Daniel Smith misplaning our hand and inviting them in and giving them too many tools.

There's a body of evidence that there's a large constituency in Alberta who does not like Canada as it is right now structurally and the way things have been going certainly for the past 10 years or more.

And they're trying to find solutions.

Separation is the wrong answer to the right question.

which is why do they feel so distrustful and broken about the way in which Canada is?

And that's a much more complicated thing to solve over time.

But there's a reason why people are angry.

It's sort of like a marriage.