Bruce Anderson

I saw someone wrote a piece that was really about whether the civil service, the bureaucracy is fully able to execute on that vision or is built for more of a slower pace, a little bit more care in executing something that's kind of as big as some of these plans.

I think that's an interesting tension that's going on in the city, but I think it's a domestic thing.

So both parts work together.

Okay.

No, I agree with what you just said, Peter.

And I agree with Chantal's point, too.

I think that the choice for him...

I think it goes like this.

I run, I lose.

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.