00:00Being part of Canada brings many economic advantages, being part of our large market,
00:08being part of free trade agreements with one and a half billion people around the world.
00:12But in the core, it's more than economic arguments, and I'm going to get to the first
00:17part of your question in a second.
00:19It's more than economic benefits, it's social, it's what we are as Canadians, so Canadians
00:24take care of each other.
00:25We take care of each other in our social programs, we take care of each other across
00:31different provinces.
00:32I will make the following observation, though, about the question, and this is an observation
00:37from experience.
00:39In these separation issues, it is often advanced that vote for this and it's a free option.
00:47Vote for this and we will strengthen our hand in future negotiations.
00:51That is a very dangerous bluff.
00:53That is a very dangerous bluff.
00:55I saw firsthand what happened in the United Kingdom when the view was, vote for this,
01:01it'll be soft, and then we'll negotiate, etc., and they ended up, and they're still ten years
01:04later, trying to undo what people didn't think they were voting for, but what they ended up
01:11having.
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