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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Well, all the same things that James just articulated.
And just to be clear, I was an advisor in that process.
And as Dalton McGinty used to say to us all the time, the thing about you advisors is you get to go on to other advice.
We have to live with whatever we take from you.
And whatever we turn it into.
So I've certainly seen this up close and personal with two prime ministers that all of the dynamics that James articulated were certainly not unique to Mr. Harper.
You want people who are broad minded in that portfolio who understand that it's.
yes, integral to cultural vitality in Quebec, but also that you represent the culture of the country as a whole.
And just because you're a Francophone from Quebec doesn't mean you can't represent people in Edmonton or Glace Bay or Coquitlam.
In fact, I think that Mark Miller is an ideal person for that role because he is a native English speaker who is probably the most fluently bilingual person
Angle phone I've ever met.
And he has spent time in Halifax, went school in Montreal and knows the country really well from his previous exposure to indigenous people in his previous portfolio.
So I think that, you know, we've got a person in that ministry now who speaks English.
French, English, Cree, and a little bit of Swedish, which I think is reflective of how, and I'm not unbiased.
I went to university with Mark.
I've known him for 35 years.
He's a very balanced, broad-minded, generous, kind person.
And he's nobody's fool.
And I think that that's exactly the kind of temperament you need in that role, not unlike our colleague here, James.
Sure does.
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