Hi. Hi everyone I had the opportunity today to speak with Mr. Jason

Nixon. He's Minister of Seniors, Community and social services in Alberta.

Why did I want to talk to him?

Well, the Albertans under Danielle Smith

have taken a very forthright stance

written recently, for example, against the trans butchery

and deceit that increasingly characterizes

the Western world. But more, they've also taken forthright action

in relationship to the springing up of all these so-called tent cities that now blight

the landscape throughout North America and elsewhere.

And they haven't done that in a heavy-handed and punitive way.

They've done that in a very intelligent and thoughtful way.

They've removed 200 of approximately 300 cities already in

Alberta and really began the enterprise only in December and I think what's

happening in Alberta, I'm hoping what's happening in Alberta could be a model for what could happen in

jurisdictions like North America wide and so that's why I decided to do this

podcast and with Mr Nixon he he has a very interesting history his

father had lived on the street as an addict and alcoholic and was rehabilitated

relatively young in his life and then spent the rest of his life helping

homeless and addicted people and Jason grew up in that environment he grew up

surrounded by homeless people even in his own house. And so this is a man who's actually

walked the walk and he knows what he's doing by all appearances. That's what we're

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