Gerald Butts
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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Just how porous the current communications environment, the information ecosystem has made everybody's borders that I was worried that what little thinking was happening about the prospect of a referendum was drawing too close of an analogy to what happened in 1995.
Whereas if it happened now with the chaos that's going on in the United States and the adversarial nature of the geopolitical environment.
Remember, 95 was just post-Cold War.
The biggest problem we all had geopolitically was how we were going to organize ourselves to divide up the spoils of the victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
And in this case, we'd have at least one, probably two, maybe three very sophisticated, active participants from outside the country that would love to create chaos on a 9000 kilometer border with the United States.
And I just don't think that we think about that very much in this country.
We think of ourselves as kind of a refuge from the geopolitical electrical storm out there when we become center stage.
If we had a referendum in one of our provinces.
And
Yeah, and you talk about Captain Canada, I'm a little more worried about Captain America in this case, Peter, because you'll recall that on the eve of the referendum, the then President Bill Clinton took it upon himself to do his own press briefing in the White House press office, press room, and
All but said, we really hope Canada hangs together.
They're great.
They're great allies, great friends, great partners, et cetera, et cetera.
Who knows whether that moved any votes in Quebec on the eve of the referendum?
We can debate that until the cows come home.
But at least we knew that there was a major trading partner.
The largest military in the world was in favor of Canada remaining one country.
I don't think we can take that for granted now.
I honestly think that if, especially when in light of the foreign policy statement that the government of the United States put out just two days ago, where it said one of the biggest problems in the world is civilizational suicide in Europe.
It's kind of insane what's going on there.
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