Jodi Calahoo Stonehouse enters Alberta NDP leadership race
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Summary
Jody Kalahou Stonehouse is running to be the next leader of the Alberta New Democrats. In this episode, she talks about her vision for the party and the team she's building to lead it to victory in the upcoming election.
Transcript
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Don Satoya, my name is Jody Kalahou Stonehouse and I'm running to be the leader of the Alberta
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New Democrats. As a First Nations woman, I come from a value system where no one gets left behind
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and there is room for everyone in the circle. I believe that as a party we are stronger together,
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unified, working together to work alongside Albertans to build the strongest Alberta possible.
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And I want to talk to you a little bit about my extraordinary team that I am going to lead
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to be the next government of our beautiful province. We have doctors who are specialists,
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we have energy experts, renewable strategists, we have got social workers, former teachers,
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we have such a well diverse group of leaders who are ready to govern because Alberta we are headed
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into some difficult times. We are going to be facing forest fires, drought, we are going to sit
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together and decide how it is as farmers, ranchers, industry, businesses and citizens, how we are going
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to make policy that ensures each and every one of us have access to the water that we are going to need.
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We have to make some changes around our energy diversification. We have got to do better Alberta,
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but we are going to do better with an extraordinary team that I am leading. Rachel would say our
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greatest resource isn't what flows under our feet, but rather what walks on top. And she's so right.
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Our greatest strength is all of us. We are currently the largest opposition that Alberta has ever had.
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I will continue to build our team so that we are ready to face the complex issues that are going to be
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facing Albertans. My name is Jody Kalahou Stonehouse and I'm running to be the leader of the New Democrat