Gerald Butts
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1,669 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Gerald Butts’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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More so than a year ago.
Well, I excuse me.
I agree with everything James just said.
And I'd also I'd also say, Peter, that one of the reasons that this is kind of the only thing I do in that's anywhere near Canadian politics in the public realm these days is because.
It's, you know, a liberal and a conservative trying to talk about politics in a way that we can find common ground and people can hopefully understand and realize that we're not two warring tribes.
We just represent different viewpoints and different ways of looking at the country and how to improve it, which is what democratic politics should be about.
And I certainly agree with James that it's a delicate balance.
You can't
When too much energy gets injected into that dynamic, it gets overheated and people get hurt.
And, you know, we've talked about this many times on this podcast that politics is it's always been a blood sport.
But in the social media age, that's become all too literal and not just figurative.
It was just a horrifying thing that happened last week in the United States.
But in some ways, the most remarkable thing about it was that it took this long to happen.
Sorry, my dog.
And I worry about what this means just because of our politics.
Because I don't think this is really about politics.
I think it's about the...
uh the coin of the realm on social media and our communications technology that we have developed this system of communicating with one another where the currency is disagreement right and the angrier you are the louder you are the more provocative you are the more dehumanizing you are of your perceived and real opponents
the more popular you get on these media.
And I think it's really a troubling juncture we find ourselves at.
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