Leighton Grey - Alberta Independence Movement Forces us to Define Our Values
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Summary
In this episode, we discuss the importance of a shared vision of the future, the role of women in society, and what it means to be a good human being. We also talk about the benefits of a multi-ethnic society and the challenges we all face.
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so yeah the path forward is to have a like a shared positive vision of the future
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yeah to adopt that personal responsibility to tell people that they are capable
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and i think we're seeing that through independence is that it's grassroots based there's a lot of
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people spending many many hours and all this hard work and you look at it's wonderful isn't it to
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see yeah it's it's it's something that is inspiring on its own yeah and I I think it'll
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continue to inspire yeah I totally agree with you and and uh I also think that um in terms of
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broadly speaking in terms of the values that we would base our society on I think we can agree on
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them by and large obviously we have to leave room for differences right because that those make us
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better um we we what the one thing we've learned in north america uh is that multi-ethnic societies
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really do work multi-ethnic ones you know where we take the best from different types of of cultures
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um and and sort of blend them together uh we we that's that's been shown to work very very well
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uh and i think um i i think you can make a very strong argument for saying that the success of
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countries like Canada the United States could not have been achieved without them being multi-ethnic
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societies uh you know all of us appreciate um different cultures you know um and and uh or we
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should and respect them that doesn't mean all cultures are equal that's multiculturalism but
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we can take the best parts from different cultures and I think we can agree we can agree to preserve
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that. And we can also agree on some shared values that I think, you know, as you say,
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Alberta independence is sort of, these are bubbling to the surface and people are seeing
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them. And I think that's maybe the best thing about Alberta independence, even if it's not
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successful in its first iteration, it still will have been a success because it got us thinking about
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these things thinking about what is a good society what's important to us right what type of
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communities do we want to live in you know what things will we accept what things are totally
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objectionable and i think maybe the greatest thing that alberta independence movement is doing
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is getting people thinking and talking about these things because for a long time let's face it maybe
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we took we took these things for granted and when you take things for granted you tend to lose them
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don't you is that not the ultimate expression of agency though yeah albertans getting together
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saying that we can do this thing and we we want to take it under our own our own wing