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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We started the campaign with a 12 or a 15 point
bleed and then there we were on that horrible October night hanging onto the country by our fingernails I guess
about the
thinking about it that's right
That's right.
And I think, again, there's a lot of PTSD, depending on the generation of the federal bureaucracy you're talking about.
I think that if you were a young bureaucrat in the mid-90s, you're probably a deputy minister or assistant deputy minister now, and you would have lived through that as a formative moment.
So I think...
I do think this has changed, by the way.
I think that the federal bureaucracy is thinking more about this now than it was this time last year.
But I think most people in positions of leadership in Ottawa just did not want to entertain the notion.
And it's a very real one.
Well, and I'd add to that, of course, that by Quebec law, the leader of the no side would be the leader of the opposition, right, in the National Assembly.
And that currently is Pablo Rodriguez and many of your voters, voters.
Peter, if you were running, you'd have lots of voters, but listeners, not voters.
Many of your listeners will probably be unaware of the current travails that the leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec is enduring.
I'm not sure I would want to have...
that person as the spokesperson for the country, the one and only legal spokesperson for the country during the campaign.
But I will say, Peter, that one of the reasons I wrote that piece, in fact, probably the main reason I wrote that piece was what I was seeing in my day job at Eurasia Group.
And
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