Gerald Butts
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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like the country when they're not in charge of it.
And I think that that's a really poor idea of civic responsibility.
And it's certainly not one I or I suspect the vast, vast majority of Canadians share.
But
You know, at the end of the day, it is a free country and they can say whatever the heck they want.
I hope that the I also agree with James that it's fundamentally an issue of leadership, that the real issue is not these four people.
The issue is democracy.
how do we have federalist parties that have within them groups of people who want to break up the country if they don't get their way?
And how do you deal with that when those points of view start to materialize?
And ultimately, as all things in partisan politics, it becomes a test and a
a way to reveal character and leadership.
And I think, you know, I think that the opinion is at best split on Pierre Poiliev's so-called unity speech.
We, of course, have dealt with this situation in the past, Peter.
You know, Lucien Bouchard, before he led the yes side in the 95 referendum, was a minister in Brian Mulroney's government.
And we have a whole party in parliament that is
devoted to breaking up the country in the Bloc Québécois.
But at least in that case, it's part of the raison d'être.
They're not kind of pretending to be federalists for a long period of time, waiting for the moment to be ripe where they can advocate for breaking up the country.
And, you know, I think that people who want to break up Canada should spend time in countries that are not Canada because it's
There really is not.
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