The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast XX
[0] Hello everyone watching and listening on YouTube and on the Associated Podcasts.
[1] I'm very honored today to have the new Premier of Alberta speaking with me, Danielle Smith, who's quite a firebrand from the West, Alberta, that's Canada's version of Texas, I suppose, and it's the province in Canada that's blessed or cursed, depending on, you look at it with, I think, the fourth largest fossil fuel reserves in the world, which that province struggles continually to get to market for reasons of idiocy that we're going to discuss in some detail in this podcast.
[2] Premier Smith newly occupies the premiership role in Alberta and is starting to put her government in order and to do battle, I would say, with the liberals in Ottawa, and that's partly what we're going to start talking about today, about the relationship between Alberta and the federal government, historically and current.
[3] Welcome to the conversation, Premier Smith.
[4] It's very good to have you here.
[5] Well, Professor Peterson, it's a delight to talk to you.
[6] Thanks for having me on today.
[7] So let's talk about Trudeau and the Liberals and what you have to offer Albertans as an alternative, and Canadians, for that matter.
[8] I know the conservatives in Quebec are pretty interested in Alberta's push for increased provincial sovereignty.
[9] So it's not as if you'd only be speaking for Albertans when you talk about a more distributed balance of powers in this country, benighted country of ours.
[10] I wonder if people know how our country has been established compared to others, because as a confederation, there's a great deal of powers that have been given to the provincial order or subnational level of government.
[11] Not all governments are structured that way, and I think it creates a little bit of confusion about why we have these battles in Canada.
[12] I think because we have an international audience, I think walking through that would be very useful for people as a beginning of the conversation.
[13] Well, I might go back to an academic journal because as soon as I started talking about the Alberta Sovereignty Act, of course there was a mass free coat in the Eastern media, and so I went back to an academic paper that had been written just after the Canada -U
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