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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It's true.
I I'd s I'd sum up and and just say, Peter, uh I think you rightly challenge us all the time to tell people who haven't had the um
uh privilege that James and I have had of being in these rooms uh throughout their career their lives, what happens in them and why, right?
That's effectively our resonette for this podcast.
And
And maybe give people advice.
Uh and my advice is first beware of people who tell you they have simple solutions to complex problems.
Uh, that the affordability uh crisis, in particular for younger people, is a complex problem a long time in the making.
And anybody selling you a short, easy, cheap
uh doable in 10 minutes solution to this is completely full of sh.
All right.
Correct.
Well, I think there was a bit of conversation about it at the time.
I think that everybody was sort of afraid to talk about it publicly for obvious reasons, because you get accused of bringing up ghosts, and I sure did when I wrote that piece.
But
I'm one who believes that forewarned is forearmed.
And hopefully that contributed to making people aware of something that I think is inevitable if we get a PQ government in Quebec.
It's certainly a much greater prospect than it ever has been in Alberta, although it's certainly heartening to see that.
federally minded, not federally, federalist minded Albertans starting a grassroots movement of their own to counterbalance what they see as a fringe movement.
But look, maybe it's the fact that I was a terrified grad student at McGill the last time this happened and everybody in Ottawa assured us that there was no chance the no side was going to lose.
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