Bruce Pardy： ＂This is a CONTEST Between Individualism and Collectivism＂ in Alberta
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In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with and to discuss s vision for a new country, what a new country looks like, and how to get there.
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are we looking at the collective are we looking at like empowering individuals right and then
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with empowering individuals comes a certain amount of personal responsibility that this is a
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big shift in thinking so if the alberta independence movement is going to get a clear majority there's
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a lot of people in the middle and you will also need people on the left to drastically rethink
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this whole collectivist based framework that we have because it seems like this didn't emerge out
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of nowhere this feels like it's more or less in the fabric of canada and still in the fabric of
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alberta even though alberta has mirrored a little bit more of the spirit of what america was built on
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it's still highly progressive yes yes very well put i think so we could frame this question the
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question of alberta independence in exactly that way we could say this is a contest between
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individualism and collectivism do you want a government that protects the individual
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individual or do you want a government that protects collectives groups and because the
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canada we are in right now is is more and more trending to the to the groups and that's one of
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the big problems with it it's one of the reasons why alberta is in the position of saying this is not
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working people this is this is this is a bad scene and what the what a future alberta ought to look
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like in terms of its government and how it works and what its policies are can can be discerned from
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that contest so if you create a new alberta and the alberta is again a free one and by the by a free
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one i mean it protects the ability of individuals to decide their own affairs it's based upon the idea
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of intuitive autonomy the ability of you to make your own decisions about your own life your own career
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your own money your own property your own family your own children if that's the kind of alberta we
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mean then we can tell the kinds of things that have to go by whether they are consistent with that
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vision or whether or not they belong to the collectivist thinking that you refer to right so
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here's here's a big one for a lot of albertans i think which is single-payer public health care
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single-payer public health care is a collectivist program it's a socialized program of health care
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if albertans mean it about being a new and free country single-payer public health care has to go
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because it is inconsistent with the vision now a lot of albertans think well but i want to keep my
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health care because they're scared to wander into the unknown of what a future different health care
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system might be i'm sorry the one that you have does not match the aspirations you're identifying
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so so again you have to have to walk into the walk into the unknown and trust that the principle upon
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which your new country is based will provide will provide for health care provide for for needs of
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all kinds you know food and housing everything that's important is provided by a free market in a
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country where people have independent rights that that's the way it works and it is a centralized planned
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country that is determined to dictate the outcomes on all those things first right so one of the
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challenges is to get albertans to get out of the mindset of how government's supposed to work
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government is not supposed to plan ahead and provide for things it's supposed to back off get his hands
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off the market and let people figure things out for themselves and that is from what i can tell
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is an idea that lies deep in the heart of a lot of albertans self-sufficiency independence your own
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decisions by your own hands and if there are enough of those people then you got a shot otherwise
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if we're stuck on the on the central planning you know collectivist thinking then this is going to go