Althea Raj

Health care systems are not in less of a crunch.

And they're pointing out that there is an infrastructure fund in the budget that really just provides funding for like the equivalent of two hospitals, which the country needs more of.

So you have a lot of liberal MPs who are actually did not realize that some of the programs that they are knocking on the door is very proudly to sell may actually be in trouble.

I was like here with, ready to give you some stats.

I think he's meeting with some of them.

I think there's more people.

Yeah.

Well, I think the ones he wants to buy, frankly, uh, silence from, um, you know, I feel like a lot of, you know, we haven't had a cabinet shuffle in a while and we should, um,

I think everybody outside and inside cabinet and caucus recognizes that there are some underperformers that should be replaced.

But just like Justin Trudeau in the fall of 2024 kind of dangled a cabinet shuffle to keep the dissenters or the likely dissenters from agitating as like, well, you know, it's just around the corner, just around the corner.

You kind of get the sense that Mark Hardy's doing the same thing, right?

And this tension is, I would say, building up in the Liberal caucus that you kind of wonder, like, these people are going to explode if they're not in cabinet.

But there are a lot of people who are posting, shall I say, about their meetings with the prime minister on social media.

So you know that he is meeting with some people.

I mean, explode like I think they will start speaking out in caucus because to your point, a lot of them are not being as vocal as publicly in that room as they are being privately about things that bother them, things that they're worried about, I would say.

And I think this the social spending is something that they were kind of not thinking about.

And now they're thinking about it.

We've had them in August in the Trudeau era.

Tripling.

It's already been twinned.