00:00:00.000Do you think there's enough unity in Alberta, even with the large share of kind of more public sector collectivists and those who believe in Canada, is there enough unity to solidify a country? Or do you think those people will leave or will they stay or will cause division? Like, how do we factor that into the equation?
00:00:23.480I still think that there is definitely enough unity. I know when we're talking about independence specifically and the referendum vote, we kind of estimate that there's a third of the population that will just never support independence and will never vote that. And that's okay. They've got their minds made up.
00:00:42.140So we're not targeting those people to have conversations, but there's like a third in the middle. They're just not sure yet or aren't educated enough. And that's who we're really trying to target and have those conversations with.
00:00:54.320as far as like the unions and some of the people who have like more of the collectivism mentality
00:01:02.320I guess when I talk to groups like that or people that come from groups like that because I'm a
00:01:07.860teacher by trade too so I understand a little bit about the unions although I'm not in favor
00:01:13.260of forced unions but it just needs to be articulated that the pursuit of self-determination
00:01:19.060and the pursuit of prosperity is actually a unifying pursuit.
00:01:48.400So it's been reviewed by economists and anybody in the public.
00:01:52.700And when you look at that, and it talks about your federal income tax ending on day one of being an independent Alberta.
00:02:00.200And what would that look like on your paycheck if all of a sudden federal income tax wasn't taken off?
00:02:04.940And then after five years, when we got rid of all income tax period, so you're working in your collectivist job.
00:02:12.260if you're in a teacher's union or a nurse's union or whatever, but you're working and your work is
00:02:17.880being rewarded and your paycheck that comes to you is your reward. It's not part of it being taken
00:02:23.440off for the government to be sent out to Quebec or somewhere else in the form of a transfer payment.
00:02:29.280This is your money that you worked for and earned. So I think talking in some of those ways,
00:02:33.420it's not a partisan issue. We want freedom and prosperity for all Albertans.
00:02:38.120If teachers, if one of their concerns right now is the lack of resources for teaching, right now they can't keep up. They want more schools. They want higher pay. So that is an economic argument in a sense.
00:02:55.560And then if that's a major concern, then you'd ask them, why can't schools keep up? Why are they overloaded? Why can't the budgets be expanded to the point that you're paid what you feel like you're worth in this kind of situation?
00:03:11.120Yeah, and maybe we need to look at the immigration policy that we have in place.
00:03:16.680And in an independent Alberta, perhaps there is a little bit of a freeze on immigration
00:03:21.760for a few years until our infrastructure can actually catch up with the mass migration