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

And they both made both sides detractors on both sides said it's never going to work out that way.

The Canadians are going to steal our jobs.

The Canadians said the Americans are going to steal our jobs.

And then lo and behold, for the 60 years that ensued, we pretty much lived up to our end of the bargain on both.

And as did the Americans.

If you look at the numbers over the course of those six decades, we pretty much produced the cars that we bought locally.

Now, why is that important?

When the team at the table, as far as I understand it from the media especially, has been the U.S.

team, has been making the case that, wait, we're going to give you the same deal the United Kingdom has, right?

So why are you complaining about the tariffs when I think it might have even been a slightly better deal than the United Kingdom has?

Well, we didn't spend 60 years growing the automotive business together, right?

And what they don't understand, and this is where I think I'm struggling not to use a negative epithet that I might regret in the future, Peter, but their lack of knowledge on this topic and their lack of interest in attaining knowledge is so detrimental to getting a deal.

Because when Howard Letnick says, we don't think the Canadian should be making cars, what he's really saying without knowing it is we don't think the Canadian should be buying American cars.

Correct.

Sorry, James, I know I've taken up a lot of time here, but I just want to finish on this point because it's super important.

And I think the prime minister did a good job of refocusing the conversation around automotive the next day.

But think about this for a second.

I've been in Doha for the last couple of days.

I came here from Singapore.

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