Christopher Orr
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Christopher Orr
@thechrisorr
Bon vivant, scoundrel, skeptic, music lover, tech maven, gourmand, traveler, dog parent. 🇨🇦 Canadian fiscal refugee living in the USA 🇺🇸



Just finished a positive first meeting with Prime Minister @MarkJCarney. We spoke at length about the policies and legislation that are holding back Alberta’s economy, and specific proposals for projects and legislative reforms that will significantly increase market access for Alberta oil and gas, agricultural products and other goods. The Prime Minister made it clear he intended to rapidly advance these kinds of nation building projects in the coming weeks and months. We also discussed our ongoing trade dispute with the United States and how the federal government can work cooperatively with our province to advance both Canada’s and Alberta’s interests. Repairing the damage to Alberta’s economy caused by Ottawa’s last 10-years of anti-resource legislation and policies will take tremendous effort and cooperation, however, today’s conversation was a positive first step.







During the course of this campaign, I reached out to the teams of the three big party leaders, offering to have them come on my YouTube channel — the most popular independent Canadian commentary channel on YouTube — for a longform interview at my studio here in Vancouver. All ultimately chose to either ignore me or ghost me after some initial talk. I’m particularly disappointed in Pierre, who I’ve already interviewed once before, and who chose to go on a much smaller, much more partisan channel instead. I don’t want to be too self-important about this, but I don’t think it reflects well on our political leaders when everyone is so damn risk-averse, so terrified of having conversations with people who might disagree with them on some things, or ask questions that might put them slightly outside of their comfort zone, even just for a moment.

















