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Andrew Boitchenko

Andrew Boitchenko

Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Sep 25, 2026

18:57
It's just not as... aligned with your portfolio but i think the world juniors is a good launching pad to ask you about it because watching the world juniors in canada has become such a beloved pastime for canadians and that applies to alberta as well or else alberta wouldn't be hosting the tournament of course but given the separatism related question that's on the referendum coming up in just a few weeks it seems a little ironic that alberta would be hosting this tournament just a
19:27
Well, I want to highlight something else on World Juniors, right? What we're trying to do is making sure that we're restoring investment confidence and encouraging these events to come to here to Alberta so that people can experience Alberta.
19:42
And the benefits for the region and for the province are tremendous, right? We have 220,000 visitors expected to come to the region.
19:53
That's huge, you know, both provincially, nationally, and international visitors.
19:59
And what it do for the area, basically we're expecting $50 million in economic activities in Alberta, right? So that's, you know, we're restoring investment and confidence and, you know, advertising Alberta as a world destination for sports events.
20:17
We're also expecting 100 million views worldwide, right? through the broadcast channels.
20:22
So that's huge as well.
21:01
In the, dare I say, unlikely scenario, and I'm putting that lightly, that Albertans ultimately vote on October 19th to begin the binding referendum process, would you be worried that that would be a bit of a dark cloud hanging over the world juniors?

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