This morning @TravisToewsAB @jfdinning @PGarritty @trevortombe @andrew_leach @jengerson @DrJaredWesley and I launched Lead not Leave. Read our joint statement here. 1/6 leadnotleave.ca

Alternate headline: Farkas crushing it in Calgary.

Sometimes, Calgary gets the mayor it needs. @JeromyYYC is absolutely crushing it.

Yes. Separatists who want to throw in the towel on Canada 🇨🇦 should recall it was only 11 years ago that we had a world-leading federal Conservative majority. The Empire will strike back. #cdnpoli #separatism #Ableg #polqc #qcpoli #skpoli substack.com/@kenboessenkool…

Enormous mistake by @policy_school to do contract work for the Alberta Government. This should have been done in-house by the Government of Alberta’s Department of Finance. Leave academics to do their own analysis independent of government contracts. theglobeandmail.com/world/ar…

From Global to the Globe: Mercedes Stephenson to succeed the legendary Robert Fife and become the new Ottawa bureau chief at the Globe and Mail Congrats @MercedesGlobal what shoes to fill! 📰

Everyone should read this. At least twice. open.substack.com/pub/thelin…

Replacing a small level of uncertainty (Canada) with a gargantuan level of uncertainty (independence) is a massive step backward.

Former Reeve and Cabinet Minister Iris Evans helped attract billions in investment to Strathcona County and Alberta. Today, she says Alberta's biggest opportunities are still ahead in a strong and united Canada. The choice is ours.👇 Pledge your vote I votetostay.ca

NEW: White hydrogen could produce a domestic source of cost-effective energy alongside mining projects. This could be a win for both the mining developments and local communities who could tap into this source of energy. Read more at ➡️ smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…

Keller’s (Non-Partisan) Iron Rules of Political Staffing™️: 1) No one is paying you to publicly express your opinions during work hours (unless your explicit job is communications on behalf of a principal); 2) Anything you say online either during work hours or outside of work hours is a reflection of your employer, including and up to your leader. Govern yourself accordingly 😎 #cdnpoli

Albertans aren’t dumb.

Show me your plan. Fully costed. Please and thanks. I’ll wait.

Alberta separatist routinely throw real Conservative accomplishments, not to mention @stephenharper’s government, into the dustbin of history. That’s wrong. Albertans have improved Alberta’s place in Canada before. We can do it again. open.substack.com/pub/thelin…

Fascinating.

There’s an entire cottage industry that point to political events around 2015 as the source of Alberta’s growth problems that ignore this chart on oil prices. Rob is doing the same today. As you can see.

Lenny Kaplan is without a doubt one of the smartest and most experienced minds on Alberta fiscal policy. He developed the very hawkish fiscal policy of Laurence Decore and Mike Percy circa 1992, outflanking the PCs on the right. That dynamic helped create the conditions for the historic 1993 / 94 Alberta budgets, aka the Klein Revolution. I know because I worked closely with both Lenny, and his counterpart Paul Taylor in Jim Dinning’s office, when I was head of the Taxpayers Federation. Together we helped to create a broad political coalition in support of the most successful fiscal restraint in post war Canada. That in turn informed the broader national movement to cut spending and taxes, now known by academics as the Chrétien Consensus. Lenny then spent many years as a top fiscal policy official at Alberta Treasury. Back in the private sector, Lenny helped me frame the UCP fiscal and economic platform for the 2019 election. Lenny Kaplan is perhaps Alberta’s leading fiscal policy expert. He makes these projections with enormous source credibility.

Your periodic reminder that separatists have been contesting federal & provincial elections in Alberta for 50 years, typically getting 1% to 2% of the vote. I’ve told separatists for years that Alberta won’t be strengthened by making empty threats to leave. But here we are in a pointless, deeply divisive debate for months to come. What a shame.

It should be a defining quote of any good leader, TBH.