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 - When Is The Right Time For A Leading Politician To Retire? · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

I know it's a cliche, but there really is not a better place in the world to live.

And there's certainly no freer place in the world to believe all the things that you believe in and do whatever the heck you want to do with your life.

So I think that there's a deeper problem with people who want to end all that than which party they belong to.

Oh, no.

Yeah, well, a couple of things.

I think that the group of First Ministers that will sit around at the Council of the Federation meeting this summer, at least three of them will be different next summer.

And I think there's a group...

There's a candidate group of five or six, but I think three of them materialize and they're somewhere.

I think James mentioned David Eby.

I think Doug Ford and, you know, I'm sure people will love me saying that.

I think there's...

Yeah.

If I'm Tim Houston, I'm thinking about my future now.

It's been a rough year.

Uh, and he's a great example of James's, uh, description of the arc of politics earlier that it's really great on the way up.

The top is not what you think it is.

And then when it starts to fall, it really falls quickly.

Uh, I think he's in that group.

Um, the only two premiers that seem to me to be six and obviously, uh, uh,

We've talked about these people in the past, but the only two premiers who seem to be relatively secure in their jobs right now, and Susan Holt has had a bit of a dip in the polls, if you believe the Angus Reid quarterly survey, is Wab Kanu, right?

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