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: What Happens "Inside The Room"? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

And there was a tense couple of hours where they went over to the White House and we didn't hear from them.

And then they came back to us and said that the president had signed off on the deal.

I don't think there's any kind of I think this is a problem writ large with Trump 2.0 that for all its faults did not exist in Trump 1.0.

But there's just no coherence on the other side of the table.

So how do you do a deal in those circumstances?

been

Except in this case, the guy in the back keeps tweeting that not only is he not going to sell you the car, he actually wants your house.

Yeah, exactly.

he said this

Well, not necessarily too much other than a signal on both sides that there's an openness to discussion.

But James would know this too.

The Prime Minister of Canada and the President of the United States pretty much have to talk on a regular basis across a whole variety of issues, and some of which can be made public and some of which cannot be made public.

Some of them are security related, some are economic.

Sometimes the president is notifying the Canadian prime minister of actions he, or I guess always he, not yet as she, is taking around the world.

And of course, there have been several security issues, including one that's kind of uncomfortably close to my hotel right now that people have been

needing to manage on a pretty 24-7 basis.

So I'm sure that's related to these

Yeah, I think, Peter, a couple of things.

And I broadly agree with everything James just said.

And I find myself...

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