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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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Moore-Butts: What Happens "Inside The Room"? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

describing how much easier it was for us and it certainly didn't feel easy at the time let me tell you and james can attest to that as well but letnick is just a different breed of cat than the people we had to deal with and uh in in the first go around you had to worry about

clowns like peter navarro popping off on cnn and other people associated with trump the trump white house popping off on cnn in their constant competition for the boss's attention and

who could say the most colorful version of what they thought the boss wanted to hear.

And that was signaled to us behind the scenes all the time that don't pay any attention to this nonsense.

Bob would say to me behind closed doors that I've got control of this file.

And as long as I'm in this office, you're going to be dealing with me.

And if the president decides to relieve me of my responsibilities that you've got

I know there are a set of problems on your hand, but in the interim, don't worry about what Peter Navarro says on television.

Now you have the Commerce Secretary and the Treasury Secretary of the United States of America saying things that are 10 times worse than...

anything Peter Navarro could have dreamt up in his adult mind to insult the president and the long-standing relationship.

And at a certain point, it becomes less rhetorical and a matter of real substance.

And I'll give you an example, a really important example here.

You know, we hosted virtually, we hosted Howard Letnick at the Canada-US Summit at Eurasia Group last October.

And I was sitting right behind Doug Ford as he was watching Howard Letnick talk.

And you could see like this purple vein start to pop out on the back of Doug's neck when the premier's neck when Letnick said, you know, we don't think Canada should have an auto industry.

And I said to myself, these people don't know the first thing about how we came to have this trading relationship writ large, that it all came out of the auto industry in the first place.

And that the basic deal was that we were each, both countries, was going to produce as much cars as it bought in any given year.

That was the target.

And that was the deal that Lester Pearson sold to the Canadian people who were very skeptical at the time.

And it was the deal that Lyndon Johnson, a Democratic president, sold to the American people at the time, especially to the United Auto Workers, who were also very skeptical of the deal.

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