‘We Are The Greatest Country’: Carney Sends Clear Msg To Trump Ahead Of Alberta Referendum

Wow. Absolutely fantastic. Okay. I'm the master of ceremonies and I'm going to give a quick speak. I'm going to warm up for the premier. What an amazing crowd. And I want to begin, first off, I want to thank Monty Solberg, who is too modest to say, he's too modest even to be in the room. Where are you, Monty? You're coming. Monty. For hosting us, for picking up the, come on, Monty, for picking up the tab. for all he's done for this great province and all he's done for this great country I and I just want to say a few words before I hand to the Premier and I'm going to pick out a couple of people including Monty who are here because I have learned a lot from those individuals from Monty I've learned importance of decency wry sense of humour and an inquisitiveness about ideas lifelong inquisitiveness this. I can't even say it. You see, I should have more of it. But when he was finance critic, when he was a minister, and ever since, and he's always embraced new ideas. Iris, Iris Evans. We sat next to each other during the financial crisis, didn't we, Iris? Yes. Bold action, decisiveness, clarity, and bringing people together. Your wife and four daughters will not let me. Yeah, and now my daughters are gone in there. It's okay. I don't know where my wife is either. Premier Stelmach. Premier Stelmach. Thank you. Great Canadian, great Albertan. Focused government. Small cabinet. Importance of rural Canada, rural Alberta. Infrastructure. And one of the pioneers, true pioneers of interprovincial trade. Many things you did, Premier, with the Northwest Initiative, West Initiative, BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and we're trying to grow that with Premier Smith. I'm going to get to you. Mayor Jeffries. Mayor Jeffries. Affordable housing. High speed transportation. High speed transportation. She's got the Canada socks. Importance of wearing the Canada socks. Mayor Farkas. How to give a speech. That's what I learned from Mayor Farkas. How to be inclusive and how to build this country. Premier Smith, the importance of, and this is not an oxymoron, what I'm about to say, tough collaboration, tough collaboration. In our time working together, the Premier has consistently put the most difficult issues on the table with the intention of finding a common way forward, okay? Common way forward. And one of the other lessons I take from that, and it's a lesson for all of us, is when we try to do more, we can do more. When we take more issues on at the same time, when we're open and honest with each other about the challenges and the solutions, the challenges, then we can find a solution. Now, second, that was one point. My second point, by the way, it seemed like more. My second point is we're here in both the best and worst of times, to borrow from Dickens, the worst of times in the sense of the world, not in Canada, but in the world. It's more dangerous and divided. We have real threats to our sovereignty that come both physically, and those are growing over time, but also virtually. And we know what those are, and we have to stand up and meet them. Now, the best of times. This is a moment of unprecedented opportunity in a province that has seen so many opportunities over time. And you think of just some of the things that have happened this year, in part because of picking up on the lessons of all these great individuals and many more we've expanded our trade footprint around the world the premier's been going around the world we've been working around the world the consequence of that you know we're in uh we're in red deer county um the canola heartbed uh if you will uh our exports are up 80 percent by value year on year our beef exports are up by value 80 percent uh you know some of that's price but it's a lot of its market uh market access and we're just getting started we're the most connected country in the world. We intend to double those connections over the course of the next year. That's the first thing. Pacific Link Pipeline would not be possible without trying to do more at the same time, working with Indigenous Canadians, working with British Columbia, working across all forms of energy, something the Premier put on the table and we were able to strike an agreement on. That makes that opportunity that it will yield more than 140,000 jobs and a more independent country, prosperous country. That makes that possible. Starting to work on high-speed rail. Working on infrastructure investments for the 25,000-plus affordable houses that the province is going to build, right? Unprecedented investments in defense, $8 billion-plus investments in defense here in Alberta, all possible because we're working together. Now, the big thing, one of the big things why Canada has these possibilities is because we have the most valuable commodity in the world, which is trust. We are trusted. We are a trusted, reliable partner. You and everyone you represent has earned that. And I want to acknowledge, I want to acknowledge that there have been times within the Federation where that trust has been put to a test. And I recognize that. It's been put to a test in my lifetime. When I was growing up, well, we don't remember, we as Albertans were made to feel that sometimes our resources weren't our own. We were later made to feel that we were developing those resources was against the tides of history. Something that should have brought us together, united us, became something that divided us. Now we're turning that around, but these were given to me. They're more than a prop. They're a symbol. The threads that linked us as a country, some of them frayed because of that. And that, you know, what we're facing on Monday is part of a reflection of that. These mitts were given to me. The yarn is from New Brunswick. The design, says Canada very proudly, is from an Ontario designer. And the woman who made them, you guessed it, is from right here, Red Deer, from Alberta. We as a country are cooperating again. Canada is working again. We are coming together. We're taking advantage of all of what we had and, you know, what we have in the end. And I'm almost finished. Canada, the almost was kind of shared. You know, you've been stuck in this position before, haven't you? You're used to this. You're used to this. That's because we make so many good announcements together. That's why. So, yeah, you know, Canada is not a transaction between provinces. It's not about gross and net gives and gets. Yes, you know, there's some of those elements that we work on in specific projects, but it's about so much more. It's about standing up for ourselves, and it's about taking care of each other. And that's what is fundamentally true about living on the prairies, fundamentally true about being Albertan fundamentally true about being Canadian we are the greatest country in the world on Monday if you haven't already voted yes if you haven't already voted get out mark your calendars get out vote stand up for Canada and then let's move forward together because we as a country last point are just getting started thank you very much now i'm going to give you the premier of Alberta subscribe to OneIndia and never miss an update. Download the OneIndia app now.