Exclusive: Prime Minister Mark Carney
Real Talk Ryan Jespersen

Exclusive: Prime Minister Mark Carney

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 16, 202632 min
  • Interview
  • Politics
  • About Canada

Prime Minister Mark Carney talks to Ryan Jespersen about the looming Alberta referendum, Western alienation, foreign interference, the Pacific Link pipeline, trade talks with the U.S., and Canada's future with the EU. TELL US WHAT YOU THINK: leave a comment here or email [email protected] THIS SPECIAL EPISODE IS PRESENTED BY HANSEN DISTILLERY. GIVE YOUR CLIENTS SOMETHING THEY'LL ACTUALLY USE THIS HOLIDAY SEASON. ORDER YOUR CUSTOM-LABELLED HANSEN BOTTLES TODAY: https://hansendistillery.com/ Feature interviews on Real Talk are presented by Mercedes-Benz Edmonton West: GET YOUR "PROUDLY ALBERTAN. FIERCELY CANADIAN." HO...

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I was in the UK during Brexit. What that referendum decision guaranteed and delivered was profound uncertainty and a UK economy which is much poorer, many fewer options, much more divided than it was prior to it. It is a dangerous bluff. This is not poker. This is the future of our province. It's the future of our country. It's the worst of times, as I said

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in Red Deer, in terms of challenges internationally, but it's also the best of times in terms of opportunities for Alberta and for Canada because we stand out. Now which way are we going to go? If Albertans put themselves in a position where its constitutional uncertainty, its

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deep division, its threats, its guns to the head, it is years and years of debate about the future of the country. We are going to miss massive opportunities. Canada is working.

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