I think we now have to make sure that we understand what an adversary China is and make sure that we're not playing into our own demise.

In this episode, I'm sitting down with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. She's been going against the grain in Canada with

their policies on the drug crisis, gender affirming care, net zero, and the Communist China

threat. And today I had a chance to do a deep dive with her

about her thinking around all these policies.

I want Alberta to just be this bastion of freedom and liberty,

a place where people from all over the world can come here and find a place and know that they're going to be successful.

I want to make sure we preserve it.

From here, Danielle Smith, such a pleasure to have you on American thought leaders.

Nice to talk to you. And of course it's American in the broader sense here, I'm saying it.

You know, I've actually someone that lived in Alberta and Edmonton

for quite a number of years. It's very close to me. Something that you know even

today some Canadians don't fully realize is how rich in oil Alberta is.

You know, people call it like the Texas of Canada or something like this.

And you know recently Canada has signed on to these COP28, I guess rules to diversify away from fossil fuels by the end of 2050.

And I'm just, what does this mean for Alberta?

Well I can tell you that one of the things maybe Americans might not know is that we have a bit of a different structure where the provinces in our country own and control most of the natural resource wealth.

We have about over 80% of the resource wealth that is owned by Alberta and so we have a lot of decision-making power over our production levels getting it to market.

I don't think that that's necessarily an odds with the idea of reducing emissions.

And that's what I've always said, is we're not transitioning out of oil and gas production.

We are transitioning out of emissions.

And so when we start thinking of ways that we can use natural gas differently, whether

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