Bruce Anderson

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2,742 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Good Talk -- Was This The Week Canada Really Changed? · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

I think the first thing is that politicians in politics has been trained to kind of divide for effectiveness over time to find a kind of a segment of voters to circle them.

and to describe everybody else as being on the other side of the fence.

And it has been from time to time a more or less effective strategy, but it has been the kind of muscular training of political parties and leaders for a long time.

I don't think Mark Carney spends much time doing that.

I think he spends more time trying to figure out how do I unify people?

How do I actually get Danielle Smith and Scott Moe and Christine Frechette and Stephen Harper into a conversation?

which doesn't really have any partisanship showing in it.

Very, very little.

And that's quite unusual.

And it's deliberate, I think.

And I think it's something that the country is sort of seeing in the way in which Mr. Carney is approaching things, and they like it.

I think the third, the other thing that strikes me about the way in which he's conducting himself is

For all of the years that I've been polling on what people like in a political leader, a strong leader is often a phrase that kind of rises to the top.

But people don't always see a strong leader, and they don't always mean the same thing when they say a strong leader.

Jean Chrétien was from time to time considered a strong leader, and people liked that, even if they didn't always like the positions that he took.

But sometimes his strength was divisive.

Brian Mulroney from time to time was seen as a strong leader.

Stephen Harper was sometimes seen as a strong leader.

But I think there's a strength in how Carney is presenting his ideas that is resonating with people, and maybe more so because they feel like we need that kind of leadership, that...

tell it to me straight, use language that I can understand, deliver an idea that is going to make me pay attention.

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