Gerald Butts
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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And I use the example in the piece of the Brexit referendum as an illustration of that.
When it started, there were no serious people.
And you can trace this as one of the early examples of polymarket, the betting industry.
A website that has become really fashionable in politics around the world.
You can watch the gap between the expectations that Britain would leave the European Union.
Yes or no.
And it is like a 10, 15, 20 point gap for a year.
And then on the day of the vote, it closes.
And that just shows you that the market, the political market in that case, was not taking it very seriously.
And I, for one, remember the last week of the referendum campaign in 1995, when it felt like Ottawa was frozen like a deer in the headlights.
You'll remember the last minute attempts, the pro-Canada rally, Mr. Crutchend's broadcast campaign.
All of that stuff felt like a team that was really worried about losing and they were pulling the goalie.
And I just hope we don't allow ourselves to sleepwalk into that kind of situation this time, because a lot of the things that we depended on externally to be reinforcing positive reinforcements for the country are actually going to pull in the opposite direction this time.
Well, I'm going to let that pitch on Stephen just sort of float right by the plate there and keep the bat on my shoulder, James.
Look, I think you articulated what made you a very good heritage minister, that you always have to keep in balance these conflicting views of what
Canadian culture consists of.
And as someone who, an Anglophone who grew up in Nova Scotia, went to school in Montreal, has lived in Toronto and Ottawa and spent a lot of time in almost every part of the country because I've been blessed with careers that brought me to pretty much every town over a thousand people in the country from WWF and in politics.
It's
it's always easy in a country as large and diverse as Canada to find a fault line and pitch your tent there, right?
And I noticed that when Mark Miller was named heritage minister, some of the largest and most famous conservative super PACs, who I will not name because they don't need publicity from me or you,
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