Western Standard - It’s a national strength to have two strong, well supported characters

00:00:00.000 believes that there is a trend in civilizations across the world where people are getting more

00:00:05.860 powerful and the and the governments are becoming less power and that's the diminution of the nation

00:00:11.020 state and things like that but that's certainly that is that is our character that's who we are

00:00:15.140 that's what Ontario made us to be as you said about we're now adult children we're not the kids

00:00:20.540 that they created why it's a good idea to accept the child that they've created and have us improve

00:00:26.820 their lives. And that in turn should spawn more entrepreneurship in Eastern Canada,

00:00:31.900 productivity and all that stuff, and it could increase prosperity.

00:00:35.860 But don't you just feel like this is unreconcilable? Like these differences are just

00:00:40.500 fundamentally like they're values differences that can't work together?

00:00:45.300 My opinion is that's the richness. It's a little bit like our financial structure in Canada.

00:00:50.720 Toronto is stayed and stable and very cautious,

00:00:54.600 and it's run by the Scottish mafia, they say, the banks.

00:00:58.160 Western Canada, and particularly in Calgary,

00:01:00.000 it's more entrepreneurial, it's freewheeling,

00:01:02.480 they'll try different things.

00:01:03.820 And the reality is our country needs both.

00:01:05.560 And so in the same way that our Canada,

00:01:08.120 any good country needs more than one character.

00:01:10.900 And if you can have those characters work together,

00:01:13.860 that's a strength, not a weakness.

Western Standard - August 20, 2026