Gerald Butts

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1,669 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Sep

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Moore-Butts Encore Episode: Is Trump's America Any Different Than Germany in the Mid-Thirties? · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

Naturally.

Yeah, I I look, I my perspective on this and obviously I'm a supporter of the Prime Minister's and I feel like I should do a disclosure that I worked on his campaign, blah blah blah.

Um everybody knows that.

I think that this is what people voted for.

I think that not necessarily any given engagement.

But

Mark Kearney's vivid description of how our uh ex excessive dependence on the United States from an economic and a lot of other perspectives had made us extremely vulnerable to someone like Trump.

And that it could only be countered not just vulnerable to someone like Trump, but vulnerable at this moment in history when the United States has taken the dark turn we described in the first half of the show.

And I think that the public, uh, I'm firmly

In the people are not stupid school of politics, I think that they are giving the prime minister a lot of leeway.

Uh, and even people who voted for him who don't like Daniel Smith or Scott Moe probably feel exactly the same way the three of us do about it, I would suspect, which is that we've all got to put our petty differences aside because the country's prosperity and even its sovereignty is at stake.

So I think that this was a logical extension of what the prime minister campaigned on.

I think you can you can agree or disagree with the specifics of what's in the deal.

I think that Premier Ford vastly overreacted uh on the EV front.

I think the we're allowing into the country um cars that really have no domestic competitor at that uh of that technology and that price point.

And if anybody should

should be worried about it, it should be Elon Musk because everywhere BYD goes, Tesla gets its ass handed to it.

Uh and I expect that will happen in Canada too.

I hope that um

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