Martyupnorth on Why Albertans Are Built Different： Mindset, Freedom, and Standing Strong in Canada
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the importance of having a strong government in the province of Alberta, and why it's important to have one in your home province. We also talk about some of the challenges facing the province, and how to deal with them, as well as what it means to live in a province that's governed differently than the rest of canada.
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with independence looming in the background we don't know if it's a guaranteed thing so
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if you're enacting if we're making wins along the way even if it doesn't work out we're in a better
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position so yes in a game of chess this is what we want to be doing essentially yeah uh just before
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you jumped on me and mike were talking about you know in uh in engineering terms we often draw these
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um these diagrams these wishbone diagrams where you the you always have a positive negative and
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then positive negative so you have to think of something not happening i mean people talk about
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the referendum as if it will automatically win it no you have to put a a yes no possibility right you
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can so in the grand scheme of things everything that danielle's advancing for us right now is is
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useful period my my ideal win is a separate alberta but if i can't be a separate alberta i certainly
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do want a really really strong one within canada i just worry you know it's a topic that comes over
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and over and over i mean i still worry the fact that they outnumber us out east man they're they're
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there's you know 25 million to our five and they can always vote against us and i i get pushback from
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this but i think it validates in the agm and other places we are different the other one we talked about
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was like uh repealing the no fault you know alberta is getting ready to do no fault insurance and we and
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the membership clearly said no no no no no no no we don't want that i mean that's a fundamental
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difference from the rest of most of canada almost everywhere else in canada insurance is a provincial
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and b no fault so we have private at fault insurance uh gun rights are different here like we we we are
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promoting if if if the other the to the canadians who argued with me online that they're the same as
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us then why are you doing things differently like the proof is well completely we're just governed
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differently i'm like you're governed differently because you're electing people and you're telling
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them to do things differently i'm showing you that we are do we think differently and we act
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differently we we bring 4 000 people to the agm and we vote on policies and we make our government
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change direction so there's no excuse so if you're different than the rest of canada then show it by
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doing things differently yeah it's it's a it's a mindset that people don't really grab like people
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think that we're being like you know we said it before like oh we're being redneck albertans or we're
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being like cocky or being arrogant or whatever but no like if you've done any traveling or if you've
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lived anywhere else in the country you know that there just is something fundamentally different about
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the mindset of an albertan versus a nova scotian or a pei islander uh you know there's just there is and
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even even a an ontarian or a quebecer like there is there is something that happens fundamentally
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when you grow up in a province like alberta that has always been an economic engine for a country
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versus an economic recipient and more of a uh the the the holding place of a managerial or a or an
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administrative type class like they get used to to things being a certain way because they're allowed
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to have that benefit because of the work that's done elsewhere that they don't see and so they
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don't develop that mindset fundamentally and it and it's measurable now it's not just it's not just
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anecdotal it's measurable right like today there was a today or yesterday this week there's a
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sure it's a report from the fraser institute say what you want whether you like them or not but it's a
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report from the fraser institute that shows the economic freedom of of all whatever 87 jurisdictions in
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north america and alberta is the only one that's a second tier jurisdiction when it comes to economic
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freedoms compared to other provinces and people go what does that mean economic freedom i just gave
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you an example i'm free to choose whatever insurance i want if you live in other places you're not free
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god in quebec they're so restricted i mean in quebec if you enter into a lease you can only enter into a
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lease from july 1st to july 1st like that's in the law you rent an apartment in quebec it's from july
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and so if you leave your you know and rent control and things like that like those are examples right
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like when you can enter in contracts ages that you can do it the the number of crown corporations i
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mean alberta has less crown corporations than any other province so those are all those all contribute
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to your economic freedom and then that economic freedom directly translates to uh gdp per capita and
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wealth and other things so um the the the differences between canada between alberta and other provinces
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are not just anecdotal they manifest themselves in a lot of data a lot of places you see it when
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everything becomes either a restricted choice let it be a government decided choice or a regulated choice
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or it's it's decided for you at that point somebody may be happy with all these government programs
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what happens if they're run by liberals what happens if they're run by another party so essentially if
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you if you have more choice and it's the private sector you will get a choice that aligns with your
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values or the way or the kind of service that you want and you're not gonna run into that counterparty
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risk of somebody you don't like having to make that choice for you and you see this right now in alberta
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the ndp voters are not very happy with the ucp doing anything but they also don't want private to do
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anything they just want their guys to do it with the orange flag