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306. Showdown with Ottawa: Alberta's New Premier | Danielle Smith

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Transfer Payments Are Still Happening in Alberta

I believe Albertans voted to cease offering the transfer payments. It was essentially ignored by the federal government. We got a 62% mandate from Albertans and I think the thing to understand is that Albertans are very generous because we've put up with this a disproportionate way of distributing resources for decades. If you look at the amount of money that has come out of our little province to fuel the rest of the country it's $600 billion since the 1960s. Maybe there isn't much point in us continuing this relationship where we have such a trade in balance with Quebec and Ontario if they're not going to assist us in getting our product to market. And that's the conversation that we're

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