Bruce Anderson

I just think that's a discordant note.

Other than the hard base of his party, I think most other Canadians are saying, well, that's not really what we want you to do.

We want you to hold the government into account.

We want you to participate in the debate.

We want you to maybe throw in some ideas that maybe it'll bother you, but the other party might steal those ideas and implement them.

But the notion that people outside the political arena

party membership really want him and the conservatives to fight, period, full stop.

I just think that's out of touch with the time.

So I just don't think he has a good feeling for how to make his case to Canadians.

And obviously he did for that 87%, but he still seems like a fish out of water to me.

Yeah, I think that the names that I would have mentioned as having some similarities would be Harper and Pierre Trudeau in the sense of both of them were somewhat reluctant about the politics of being prime minister.

And that's true for Mr. Carney as well.

That's not to say that on any given day they couldn't be political, they wouldn't be political, they weren't effective in a political sense.

It's just that I don't think it...

and reading through the Coutts diaries a little while ago, I was reminded of the degree to which Pierre Trudeau really wasn't very interested in that aspect of the job.

For me, the bigger question is,

compared to when.

I can't think of a time in the life of our country or the life of the world while I've been alive that's even remotely similar to what we're seeing right now.

The complete breakdown of the world order.

And so, you know, there may have been prime ministers before that world order manifested itself in the post-World War II years, where