Danielle Smith to Jordan Peterson in "Showdown with Ottawa: Alberta's New Premier | Danielle Smith":
"We need to be prepared to move to a more European style of system." Full source video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uui-E6xdr-Q 1,244,538 views. Uploaded Nov 17, 2022 The Dr. Jordan B. Peterson Podcast. TRANSCRIPT BELOW.
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DANIELLE SMITH:
What happens is, they over-tax us at the federal level. This is sorta thuh, thee, one of the flaws of our
constitutional arrangement that we set up, is that the federal government can tax us into oblivion. And then they hoard a pot of money. And then they sort of dribble it back to us saying, "Oh, if you run your programs our way, then we'll transfer you some of the dollars back." So, they, thee, the real problem with the, with the way the country operates is that the federal government is taxing and taking more money than they need, and then they're using that federal spending power to essentially dictate to the provinces.
And that's a real problem.
That's part of the reason why, when you look at what Quebec has done, they start taking back more
authority over their provincial powers. So, they, um, they collect their own, their own income taxes. And
the reason why I think they ultimately want to do that is one day I think they want to move to a more
European style of system. Where each of the sub-natonal governments collect [sic] all their own taxes, and then they pay to the central authority only those dollars that go to support the federal areas of jurisdiction.
And that, I think, is, is -- when Quebec moves in that direction, we need to be prepared to move in that
direction, too. But, I think that's the evolution of where we're going.
[Note: there is no Darwinism of the Constitution; constitutions don't evolve, they are made, or they are
broken by treason. With a statement like that, Smith is guiding the future "negotiations" to comply with the framework invented by the Supreme Court of Canada sitting as a non-judicial federal advisory board in the non-binding 1998 Quebec "secession" opinion.]
JORDAN PETERSON:
Is Quebec farther ahead on that road than Alberta? And, is your plan to bring Alberta down that route,
and, uh, and, are -- is Saskatchewan on board?
DANIELLE SMITH:
We are going to take as uh, as uh, as much action in our areas of jurisdiction as Quebec.
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