Look what happens in Alberta when we let it do stuff

Whether you like Danielle Smith or don't, and I'm pretty sure you like her, um, you, you gotta look at this and go, "These are three big wins."

Well, to start with, I'm a fan of Alberta, I'm a fan of Canada, and within that, I love the way Danielle is trying to work with the noise and nonsense.

She's very much aligned with Scott Moe.

Scott s- Scott Moe, more than any other premier, seems to understand the value of natural resources, the value of the west.

Little confusion with Eby, little confusion with Wab Kinew, but Ford seems to be now aligned with all the noise, and so, yeah, you're absolutely right.

We're getting pipelines.

We need power lines.

Um, there's a lot, a lot of things we need, and it looks like we're making some progress.

All right.

So, uh, the last week though, from a business point of view and a political point of view, how would you rate Smith's last week?

Well, the Meta data center's been underway for about eight months.

I ended up working in the background with some of the politics and bureaucrats.

I'm not invested in it, but I'm a huge believer in data centers, and I am in the power business.

So we had been dancing, talking to Meta, and we'll continue to talk to Meta and anyone else who wants to build another data center in Alberta.

But what they're doing up in Sturgeon County is unbelievable.

A 13-plus billion dollar investment.

Um, the cash that's gonna come out of that for Alberta is extraordinary.

So here's Meta saying, "We wanna dance.

We wanna play." And what was really interesting is there wasn't a single person from Ontario, Ottawa in particular, at the press conference.

So in other words, the federal government had nothing to do with this major project, even though they claim-

And they, and they have a minister for AI.

I like him.

[laughs] I was on his show a few times, but he just isn't engaged.

He just isn't connecting.

He isn't part of the business community.