Why a Conservative Coalition is Needed in Alberta ｜ Cameron Davies of the Alberta Republicans
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with the founder and former Prime Minister of the Alberta Republican Party and former Conservative MP for the riding of Alberta s capital city of Edmonton, Doug Ford, to talk about his political philosophy and what it means to be a conservative politician in Canada.
Transcript
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in canada we really haven't seen a successful party or movement for small government because
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if you just put in a few more mlas or mps that hasn't changed and if you have the same engine
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you're gonna have the same results in a way so then the question's like well can you adapt this
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engine can you just what would it take to actually rewire things or sometimes do you have to start
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fresh with something that's purpose built with the right checks and balances yeah and i think i think
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you hit the nail on the head with with the system itself you you can't add a few clean drops of oil
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to to a drum of dirty oil and expect it to change and that's and that's just the reality of it and
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from time to time an oil flush is needed in this particular political context we have a system
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where the local mla's voice has only exercised up to a point of tolerated
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permission so you cannot voice your concern beyond what's permitted by the leadership
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of a caucus or or of a party and so it's a system that really is is quite deeply flawed
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when you when you look at other systems around the world 30 30 member nations of the commonwealth
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have chosen a different system for a reason uh we we we operate in a in a really wonky
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westminster system that's not fully a westminster system it's kind of a a bridged version of that and
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so part of the the aspect of the alberta republican party now is we need a system change
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we're advocating for independence we're advocating for separation from canada but with that comes
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an advocacy campaign and a political campaign um that would completely revise and rewrite the system
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with the will of albertans because we need checks and balances but until we get there
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the only method of having a check and balance is by forcing a conservative government into a
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coalition with a conservative party so that you have two conservative parties working in coalition
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cooperation to ensure the ndp don't win but if either conservative party has their hand in the cookie jar
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the whole house of cards comes tumbling down if either conservative party doesn't move forward
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in a principled way and and reduce government get back on a principled fiscal path then they lose
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government it's it's it's a guardrail it's a it's a safety release having two conservative parties in a
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coalition yeah that's an interesting point it's um something you said earlier reminded me of of uh of a
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couple quotes actually when you were mentioning how it just feels like no matter no matter how conservative
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these parties campaign without opposition they just keep gradually sliding to the center there's um i
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don't know if you're familiar with either of these guys but there's a um i just was hearing a podcast
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i listened to uh they were mentioning this quote uh curtis yarvin is a uh a conservative political
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commentator he has the quote uh cthulhu cthulhu may swim slowly but he always swims to the left
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and uh and then there's a there's a man named uh robert conquest he's a uh was a british uh
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uh historian novelist he had a great quote he said um any organization not explicitly right-wing
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sooner or later becomes left-wing the simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic
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organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies