Bruce Anderson

My party wasn't sure about me anyway.

I've lost twice before.

What does my record start to look like that I can't actually turn my effective rhetoric into votes?

Maybe then the best choice is to not run for fear of losing a kind of a budding green shoots of credibility as a voice of a kind of a reanimated left.

And I can imagine that that's a rational conclusion to draw.

The alternative strategy described as being going across the country and kind of building up the part, I don't believe that.

I don't think that's the way it works.

You need a platform.

You need to be heard.

And Peter, your point is absolutely right.

It's not going to be a gaggle of media following him along saying we're here in Lloydminster and this message is really going over well to the 24 faithful that showed up.

It is his best option is to find a way to be present in the Ottawa conversation where the media are, where people are kind of dialed into who's saying the most interesting things, the most dynamic things, presenting the most compelling case.

Because he does play really well in that marketplace.

If the liberals are going to become vulnerable at some point, it's more likely to happen among young people.

And it's more likely to happen because young people are saying the status quo economically doesn't really work for us.

Works well enough for older people, but it doesn't work for us.

And so they tend to be susceptible to pitches from the populist right, Poliev perspective, but also if somebody could come at them with an argument from the left, a Mamdani style, we've got to shake up the system so it bends more towards your interests.

There's a pretty significant market for that.

And he is pretty good at figuring out how to speak to that without sounding...

I wondered a little bit whether or not he was going to come off as a kind of an obnoxious voice in that.