Cameron Davies： Republic of Alberta Will Have BETTER Port Access Than As a Province
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the breakup of the Canadian federation and the potential for a republic of Alberta within the new federation. We discuss what that means for the future of the country, the economy, trade and much more!
Transcript
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we should line up a rapid fire q a because those are really fun but uh really really quickly because
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i we run into this at every town hall that i'm at because it's fine it's it's it's the left
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the the eastern narrative is is you can't and the fact of the matter is alberta was built on
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we can we have a can-do attitude a can-do spirit um growing up my mom always said can't can't do
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anything and so we have to approach this problem we're problem solvers we roll up our sleeves we
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get up in the morning and and we get stuff done and so the whole notion of we can't is predominantly
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the the exact reason why folks decided to stay in the comfort of their homes in toronto and montreal
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and not move out west to begin with because they didn't think they could and alberta was built by
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people who said yes we can and so landlocked province well you better not tell switzerland
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that because they're doing pretty good we would have more access to international markets under
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international access to to market uh laws um than we do right now within confederation yeah
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there are free trade barriers within canada it's not actually even a real country at this point
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uh nation states don't have barriers of trade within its own borders but we do apparently
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um our own currency look we get to decide as albertans what currency we want to use we get
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to decide we leave this abusive relationship we get to determine what relationships we want to
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engage with and foster which ones we don't what our relationship looks like with canada after the
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divorce are we going to be friends i hope so but you know what the nhl has two nations in right now
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and it probably would be great with a third and the oilers and calgary flames can keep on repping
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under a republic of alberta just fine within the nhl and i think that would be absolutely phenomenal to
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see i agree i agree and for anyone wondering if you want to look this up because we've we've gotten
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into enough arguments about this ourselves uh you look up unclos that's a un convention on the law of
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the sea that's international law that guarantees port access it's not an argument it'll be better than
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we have currently with the government of bc with inter-provincial trade barriers so yeah agreed