00:02:16.860But they exist and it was identified that this is a real thing. There's an understanding
00:02:21.980between the state or the government and the people. So what are some examples?
00:02:26.780Well, some of the best known ones are of course the United States and that good example is
00:02:35.100there you surrender your sovereignty to the state and they in turn promise that you will be
00:02:41.260important. They care for each government, cares for each individual American, and that you will
00:02:46.800have a chance to achieve the American dream. The other one that's very important, and I certainly
00:02:53.620saw this when I was traveling in Russia, is that the agreement in Russia is let the guys at the
00:03:00.220top do whatever they want as long as they just leave me alone and I can live my life. And so
00:03:05.920So every country, every country, no matter whether they're an organic state or a mechanical state or whether it's a dictatorship or whatever it is, there is a social contract.
00:05:38.600And then, of course, United Empire Loyalists, when they came to Ontario in the Maritimes,
00:05:43.220that supported it again, that we will be loyal to the European crown as long as you do whatever
00:05:51.700you can to support us. So that's where the nanny state came from. Okay, so nanny is like0.91
00:05:56.760the crown. The nanny is like the royals that are taking care of me. That's the...0.88
00:06:02.380Originally. And then of course, the federal government took over that position and that
00:06:09.120became the crown effectively in fact we still call crown lands you know crown holdings and all that
00:06:14.960stuff we still refer to our federal state as the crown and so yeah that's where it came from so
00:06:21.520it's the idea someone's going to take care of me as much as possible and of course we're going to
00:06:26.960talk about this in a second is that has evolved over the years and and actually accentuated i
00:06:33.040see okay and so what about the other one the well the other one is again we talked at pre
00:06:38.880in previous episodes about the way that the West was settled and how that was different
00:06:44.240and how that created a different character. Well, it also created a different social contract.
00:06:48.960And in that social contract, remember from Calgary, for example, the government in Ottawa
00:06:55.760is two time zones away, 2,500 kilometres through this dense forest and then across these open
00:07:04.400Prairies, it was virtually impossible, not completely impossible, but it's very difficult
00:07:11.280for the Ottawa government to have a meaningful impact on the pioneers in Western Canada.
00:07:17.680And so therefore, it was detached. So therefore, the people had to survive on self-initiative
00:07:25.520and working together collaboratively. And then I think there was a territorial government before
00:07:31.1201905 and it was very slight it was a very small endeavor and we didn't even have a provincial
00:07:37.440government until 1905 so that social contract was well established and that's why it's more
00:07:44.320directed towards support myself initiative and so that's why i call it kind of a pioneering
00:07:50.160contract okay well that all seems logical it follows from what you've already been saying
00:07:55.760But I mean, it's just a, I guess it's an idea right now.
00:07:59.300So I'd like some examples, like some actual.
00:08:03.500Well, a couple of examples, I guess, is the first one is the oil and gas industry.
00:08:08.560So there's a lot of people that say that if oil and gas was found in Ontario, Quebec,
00:08:13.760anywhere in there, there would be three primary oil and gas companies.
00:08:18.000They'd all be owned by some big families in Eastern Canada,
00:08:22.100and there would be no entrepreneurship.
00:08:24.100What happened in Alberta was that the provincial government in this social contract where we
00:08:30.340support self-initiative, it figured out how to make sure that the information was all
00:08:36.420disseminated out to all these junior oil and gas companies. So they all had basically the
00:08:41.700same information. There was no competitiveness between it. There was all kinds of collaboration
00:08:46.900and it created a huge junior oil industry that would have never appeared in central Canada if
00:08:54.200they had that resource. And then, of course, from a collaborative perspective, when it came to
00:08:59.880developing the oil sands, it was very much a private sector, private initiative, provincial
00:09:06.320government efforts that brought that about. So that's one of the biggest ones. And then
00:09:12.840And on the other side of it, you know, we talked about Big Brother Confederation, and that's the way the government has viewed its own people, too, in the East.
00:09:24.420The Big Brother concept of we'll take care of you, whether it's Big Brother Ontario in Quebec or it's Big Brother in the Maritimes, there is a real sense of Big Brother government.
00:09:36.280And that's because federal government is closer.
00:09:40.940In Ontario, for example, people speak of Ontario and Canada interchangeably, and it's actually quite funny because often they will say Canada when they mean Ontario, and it's a very, very different attitude towards the national government in Ontario than it is in Alberta.
00:10:01.200In Alberta, we view the federal government as something that's distant and something
00:10:06.900that tries to do damage to us, whereas in Ontario, they view the Ontario government
00:10:13.960and the Ottawa government as one and the same.
00:11:39.100So French Quebec, Battle of the Plains of Abraham, was 1759.
00:11:46.700And the British very quickly said, if you maintain your loyalty to the British crown, we will give you your religion and your ability to have a unique culture and linguistic rights immediately.
00:12:02.440And the leadership in the French community, which was notably the church at this point in time, said, well, we will promise you 200 years of loyalty.
00:12:12.620Fast forward, 1959, so exactly 200 years later, is the start of the Quiet Revolution.
00:12:18.920When Quebec says, well, we've done our loyalty, we did what we said we were going to do,
00:12:23.380which is kind of impressive, actually.
00:12:25.180But they decided, well, now we've got to go on our own.
00:12:27.820We can no longer just maintain our loyalty.
00:26:09.800So my question is, with all these social contract variations,
00:26:13.040Is it possible that we resolve this as a country and that we reclaim one social contract, whether it's, you know, because the social contract to me, the way you're talking about it, it's not overt.
00:26:25.780We don't talk about it and negotiate it.
00:26:28.680And, you know, I don't even think in the Constitution we say like this is that kind of an intention.
00:26:33.940But what would it take to recreate that social contract and have it be unified across the country?
00:26:41.580social contract is a little like programming you know you don't really know what's there
00:26:46.380but it affects every decision every day and politicians can't impact the social contract
00:26:53.420they are subject to it only the people can change the social contract so that's why this thing that
00:27:00.060we're doing is so important that we're saying this is what the people need to do and the people need
00:27:05.580to adjust the social contract and what we have to do is we gotta let's go down to the lowest common
00:27:10.140denominator. And that is that everyone needs to respect the self-sovereignty across the country.
00:27:19.020That's our lowest common denominator. And then if places down east choose to use their sovereignty
00:27:26.700to have a different relationship with their local government, then they can do that.
00:27:31.340But at a national level, the only way that we can have a ubiquitous social contract is that if we
00:27:38.460say and i've written it down here support the self-sovereignty and self-initiative of all
00:27:44.540for the best life of their choosing that's what i would propose as a social contract for all of
00:27:50.780canada and then locally if you want to do something different if you want to surrender that you can do
00:27:56.700that but your local government has to pay for the consequences of that and so other parts of other
00:28:05.500regions don't support your nanny state in your area sounds like you're talking about localism
00:28:13.420sounds like you're talking about like more localism or more ability to make different
00:28:17.660local decisions than another locale sounds like you're also talking about the measure being
00:28:23.500financially connected like there's an economic uh consequence to to those sorts of decisions
00:28:30.940of course there's they're always you know everything you do has an economic consequence
00:28:34.620as I talked about in Quebec, where Bastion Quebec made choices that were about social programs,
00:28:42.000linguistic and all that stuff. Those things have negative impacts on the economics, which is fine.
00:28:47.600And as long as they bear those negative consequences, God bless them. That's their
00:28:52.160choice. We should support that. But we shouldn't subsidize it. And so this concept of bidding for
00:29:00.480the loyalty of Quebec. We just have to get rid of that. And perhaps, perhaps we can have a better
00:29:07.460nation for it. Well, I look forward to our next episode. Thanks, Randy. Thank you very much.
00:29:12.660People need purpose. It is core to our existence as much as food, shelter, and friends and family.
00:29:19.120For many in the West, a core purpose is to enhance national prosperity by individual endeavor.
00:29:25.640The nanny state creates dependency, bureaucratic stagnation, and the loss of personal opportunity.
00:29:31.880After 10 lost years and a buildup of strangling inertia, we need execution.
00:29:37.360No longer is it just to prosper, but to survive as our national autonomy is threatened through economic coercion.
00:29:44.560We will take a look at Canada's economic record and trajectory, where we are at, how we got there, and what we have to do.
00:29:51.940It's a story that will have you on the edge of your seat.
00:29:54.180Tune in next time to A Nation of People.