Oct 14, 2026 · 1 hr 28 min · 16 segments
Albertans, How will you vote? I sit down for the second time with Keith Wilson of Let Alberta Decide. I have a few more guests this week that i think you'll enjoy. This is easily the most important…
Keith WilsonGuestKevin TuckerHost
So the, the Calgary Chamber of Commerce has come out with a couple of models, right? So...
And I, I did a video where I grabbed the calculator from my desk and said, "Just so everybody's clear what a model is, these economic models, it's like the calculator.
So if I go two plus two, it's gonna say four," right? Like, it's whatever you put in comes out.
They, they assumed that there would be an 8% or 9% friction on the economy, and then they just took the economy, split it by 8%.
But where does that friction come from? But more importantly, the chamber, as well as the $1.5 million study commissioned by Premier Smith, uh, by the, uh, University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, um, they are all based on incredibly dire pessimistic, uh, assumptions.
And one of them, which I find is easy to illustrate the folly of their reports, the University of, uh, uh, or sorry...
The University of Calgary talks about it, but more bluntly does the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.
And they say that if Alberta were to move towards independence, follow our legal pathway to change the constitutional order so that we elect our officials here instead of having them elected, uh, by Ontario and Quebec, that Ontario might decide to cut off trade with Alberta.
Albertans and Alberta businesses buy 39 billion, $39 billion worth of goods and services from Ontario each year.
The suggestion when they're losing access to their biggest customer- Their economy's in decline, their population's aging.
The suggestion that they could suddenly stop trading with us because we're moving to independence would be economic suicide.
So the, the Calgary Chamber of Commerce has come out with a couple of models, right? So...
And I, I did a video where I grabbed the calculator from my desk and said, "Just so everybody's clear what a model is, these economic models, it's like the calculator.
So if I go two plus two, it's gonna say four," right? Like, it's whatever you put in comes out.
They, they assumed that there would be an 8% or 9% friction on the economy, and then they just took the economy, split it by 8%.
But where does that friction come from? But more importantly, the chamber, as well as the $1.5 million study commissioned by Premier Smith, uh, by the, uh, University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, um, they are all based on incredibly dire pessimistic, uh, assumptions.
And one of them, which I find is easy to illustrate the folly of their reports, the University of, uh, uh, or sorry...
The University of Calgary talks about it, but more bluntly does the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.
And they say that if Alberta were to move towards independence, follow our legal pathway to change the constitutional order so that we elect our officials here instead of having them elected, uh, by Ontario and Quebec, that Ontario might decide to cut off trade with Alberta.
Albertans and Alberta businesses buy 39 billion, $39 billion worth of goods and services from Ontario each year.
The suggestion when they're losing access to their biggest customer- Their economy's in decline, their population's aging.
The suggestion that they could suddenly stop trading with us because we're moving to independence would be economic suicide.
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