00:00:00.000I do find the, you know, the thing that has been on my mind for the last month is how quickly people who say they're conservative will back away from the UCP on a single point of principle.
00:00:20.540I mean, this is not to say, somebody else can say it, but I mean, this is not to say that
00:00:29.120Daniel Smith has done everything right from beginning to end. But there has to be a degree
00:00:34.960of forgiveness. Otherwise, you will find yourself with an NDP government, or you'll find yourself
00:00:43.340with a forever Canada government, which will do a lot of things that you will not like as
00:00:49.960a conservative. So maybe the people who say, well, she owes her position as premier to us because we
00:00:59.240the separatists, we voted for her, so she owes us. Yeah, that attitude is getting tiresome.
00:01:05.800It's most unhelpful and it could lead to an NDP government. And then there are the other people
00:01:10.780who make their decisions on, I'll say the price of gas, we'll be talking about Trump later, but
00:01:17.620When you look at the foundational things that Smith has accomplished, setting up the wealth
00:01:28.980fund on an entirely different basis, making significant interventions into health, which
00:01:36.340were unfortunately exactly the same time as they jacked the population up by about 20%,
00:01:41.940It makes it kind of hard to reform anything when the targets are constantly shifting.
00:01:48.600But taking the positions that she's taken with the federal government,
00:01:52.100standing up for all of her, these are all good, solid, foundational things
00:01:56.440that are to the credit of her government.
00:01:59.240And yet the criticism is, well, she let us down on separation,
00:02:04.360she owed us, and now we're pulling our support.0.98