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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Because there are very few exceptions.
I mean, if you don't shoot the sitting prime minister on the way out metaphorically, like Minister Freeland did, there are very few examples of a minister's departure that materially altered the course of a government.
In my view, I'm not the deepest student in political history, but I know a little bit about it.
And certainly, yes.
Maybe you could argue John Turner in the 70s.
But at the end of the day, ministers are ministers and prime ministers are prime ministers.
And one matters a lot more in the minds of voters than than the other.
Yeah, I think that's right.
It's kind of like yelling at people from the comfort of your car or these days from your keyboard.
You think it's a free way to expel negative energy rather than something that lands on people and has consequences.
And, you know, it's interesting.
As I was listening to James, I was thinking, and I agree with this, I think you're basically saying it's easier to get into politics because you don't really know what you're getting into.
And it's easier to leave because you know what you're leaving behind.
Yeah.
And and I think that both of those things are really true that I remember when I decided to leave the premier's office in June of 2008.
I left, but I told the premier after the election in 2007, I was not going to be there for the long haul and that I would get through the transition and the budget.
But I really wanted to leave.
And coincidentally, I spent the first two weeks after I left at Jim Kutz's place in southern Alberta.
And I remember saying, he said, so why do you want to leave this job?
And I said, well, everything I love about the job has gotten to be routine.
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