Gerald Butts

Well, I don't know.

Listening to James describe this situation, I feel like I should call my friends and say, call off the by-elections.

It doesn't sound like any fun at all.

So I do agree with what James said, though.

I think that the pressure that mounts, you just have no excuses, right?

So people get less patient with their demands.

You've always got mouths to feed in government, right?

whether it be traditional constituencies, the issues that a party will prosecute over time that James was talking about.

Every party has their version of that issue, of those issues.

But on the upside, and I think it is a really important upside, and I think in a strange way, they're about to generate what the public wants, frankly, because I think that the public wants...

Prime Minister Carney to have the stability and the planning horizon that you get with a majority government but nobody wants an election and I think that that's true of the Prime Minister as well without speaking for him that's just my own instinct watching his body language and I think in a strange way and people have made this point about our parliamentary system many times over the years the system itself is conspiring to give the public what it

And I know a lot of people will disagree with that and we'll get some hate mail for it.

But when my reading of the polls and how consistent they've been in support of the prime minister, and let's be honest, this is support for Mark Carney and his government.

It is not support for the traditional version of the liberal party.

It is support for Mark Carney.

I think they're going to get what they want.

So if you're in the prime minister's shoes...

you have the most, suddenly you have the most valuable resource in politics and in life, and that is time.

So instead of worrying about whether you need a scenario to go to the polls this spring and another one next fall and then one the following spring and basically every six months,

usually unpredictably something generates an election anyway.