00:00:17.000And we wanted to ask you, can you tell us why, for you,
00:00:22.000it's important to be attending and speaking
00:00:24.000at an event like the We Unify conference?
00:00:27.500Well, when I was approached to be part of this, to be first originally a speaker and then ultimately a moderator and a little bit more involved in it,
00:00:36.180I liked the direction it was going, which was to reclaim Alberta.
00:00:40.100I liked the idea that Albertans should be speaking and having conversations and sharing ideas of all types.
00:00:46.240It wasn't a specific type of event where it was just one topic.
00:00:50.040I liked how it was all laid out to have various conversations like education and sovereignty of the person.
00:00:55.560and also have conversations about parallel economy.
00:02:17.840From the very beginning, I was able to reach out to people.
00:02:20.520They said, yes, have conversations and learn a lot.
00:02:24.160Very different subject matters, very different spectrum of ideas and positions.
00:02:30.380And all the way up to the premier, Danielle Smith, as well, I was able to sit down and have a candid conversation with her and learn quite a bit.
00:02:37.560So for me, the reclaiming of Alberta was to go and learn more and then start to share that.
00:02:44.240And that's why the show itself is shared online.
00:02:47.020It's a free show for a lot of people because I also want other people to capture that learning as well instead of just me kind of capitalizing my own curiosity.
00:02:57.040So that's why I share it out there on several platforms.
00:03:00.000A gentleman like you out there, too, I really admire what you guys are doing.
00:03:03.900You're out there at conferences and out in the public.
00:03:06.560I'm just in a little studio, which is a little shed on my property.
00:03:09.920But I couldn't be more pleased that the Reclaiming Me conference brought a whole bunch of people together from different parts of media and the conversation.
00:03:18.240So we can even, behind the scenes, while we're sitting at our tables, have conversations and exchange cards and continue to learn.
00:03:25.140What is the next, what is the project that you're working on right now that maybe you're excited to share?
00:03:30.860And what does the next six to 12 months look like for Jason Levine?
00:03:35.140I want to step up more for my community.
00:03:37.260So I've done a lot of education myself, so I can be a little bit more versed in having difficult conversations on a political level, community level, administrative level.
00:03:47.100And I want to get more involved on there.
00:03:52.240And there's a couple opportunities, maybe on the municipal or provincial level as well, where I can start bringing some of the stuff I brought to the community and actually put it to work.
00:04:00.960The knowledge in my head is fun for me.
00:04:03.140I like to think back of what I've learned and how to put the pieces together.
00:04:06.780But if I can make it more practical for solutions for my community, I think you're going to find me in those kind of places in the very near future, in a 12- to 18-month time frame.
00:04:16.040If I'm holding an elected office, then I think I would have succeeded at what I'm trying to do.
00:05:24.900And then some of the conversations that I've had was around education.
00:05:28.300So this morning at breakfast is one of the beautiful things about being at the conference.
00:05:32.440It's just sitting down, who randomly sits down with you for breakfast.
00:05:35.920And started talking about education on a level I didn't before.
00:05:39.120We had a teacher there and we had a, my wife was also there, we homeschool and we had someone
00:05:44.620from Ontario sharing her ideas as well and just bouncing back and forth.
00:05:48.720And that just filled my cup up is the term I like to use because now I'm even more excited
00:05:53.520to continue the next 12 to 18 months that we're on the right track, the youth are listening
00:05:57.780and we're doing the things that we need to do in order to help their future.
00:06:01.840And yourself, what do you hope someone's learned from you?
00:06:05.880Frankly, I was trying to make sure that when I was on the media panel that I put out there that the truth with a capital T is important, not your truth or their truth.
00:06:15.600I wanted to make sure that people understood that in order to get to the truth, you have to identify the truth.
00:06:21.800One quick example I gave during that panel was you and I kind of sitting across from each other and there could be a stick on the ground and it looks like a six to me, but it looks like a nine to you.
00:06:30.820And then we can debate all day long, is that a six or a nine, when the truth is, it's a crooked stick.
00:06:35.940And we both have to identify that and understand that and move on with the conversation.
00:06:39.840So I hope that people took that away from the panel, because at the end of the day,
00:06:44.020we all have our own perspectives, but we've got to kind of ground ourselves in the truth, not my truth.
00:06:49.320Jason Levine, thank you for everything that you do.
00:06:52.440Thank you for always taking the time to sit down with us.
00:06:56.020Appreciate your work and looking forward to what the future has in store for you.