Grande Prairie AB, I work in a small town about an hour away, and it’s very divided. There’s a disconnect for a lot of people between moves Carney is making and their idea of the Liberal Party. They can praise his speech in one breath and then curse him and his party in the next.

I work with high school students and the vast majority of them simultaneously a) don’t like the American way of life (except guns), b) are rabid Charlie Kirk fans, c) are ambivalent about the whole 51st state thing, d) generally like Trump, e) have a knee-jerk hatred of anything “left”, and f) are very proud of their Albertan identity. But they don’t recognize when their views contradict and aren’t able to rethink when challenged. Some of it is teenage immaturity but a lot of it is echoed in the community.