Gerald Butts

Now he gets to take a step back and say, okay, I've got three years.

What do I want to accomplish in those three years?

And for all of the reasons James described, that will heighten the pressure on him.

But I think there's no substitute for having that kind of time.

And look, as someone who has been deeply involved with him and

And in this whole enterprise for certainly the first half of last year, it's impossible to describe, guys, the velocity at which this thing was traveling in terms of normal politics.

And I think as a consequence, he just hasn't had a chance to take a breath.

I mean, he, I think, enjoys moving at this speed.

The system does not enjoy moving at this speed.

And it's been...

on its rails for a while.

And I think getting a chance to take a step back, point out to his team, make whatever adjustments he needs to make to his agenda and describe clearly what he wants to accomplish most importantly to the public over the next three to six months is,

And then drive the system hard toward achieving those things.

He'll get what you usually get as a leader going into a campaign before a campaign, but that he circumstances robbed him of the benefit of having that preparatory time.

And now almost miraculously, he's probably going to get it while prime minister.

That's a good question.

I think that I'm glad you picked up on that, Peter, and I hope other people did, because I think that this has been like all successful strategies.

I think Mark Cardenas is relatively simple and it's we need a bigger tent, both within the liberal

Party and within the Parliament of Canada so that we can get through the crisis that the United States has visited upon us together.

That's a strategy, right?