Gerald Butts

Listen, the point James makes, and it's a cliche about politics that it's a people business, but it definitely is a people business.

And sometimes feelings get in the way of strategy.

And there are certainly a lot of feelings between Pierre Polyev and Aaron O'Toole.

Yeah.

And I get why I absolutely get why, but you got to dial that stuff down.

I think James gives wise counsel there and extra points for the use of the word braggadocious.

I appreciate it.

Although in this case, I know what I think.

It's that Wab talks like people talk.

He says things that everybody can understand in a way they can understand it.

And he seems to mean it when he says it.

So he not only has that kind of authenticity, which is an overused term of communications, but he's willing to try new things, right?

Like I, for one, we've talked about AI and technology on this podcast many times.

I love this idea he's come up with to ban algorithmic pricing in Manitoba.

I think it's a great idea.

I don't know whether it works like all frontier technologies,

policies, it's probably going to have to be tried and adjusted and retuned and that sort of thing.

But I think in an era where a lot of people have grave questions about the advent of technology and what it means for their basic standard of living and their rights and freedoms,

He seems, at least, to be willing to give an honest effort to try and help people.

And I think that's what's working for him.