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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So that looks like a very different table going into next year than when we're having this conversation next year than this year.
And then the other, I think, real wildcard, and it is a real wildcard.
It's actually two wildcards.
One is...
How much has the energy price crisis baked inflation into the economy going forward?
And if it has baked more than the central bankers, as they did last time, are expecting it to, then it's going to be political trouble for every incumbent of every political stripe everywhere.
That's one big if.
And the second is where some of your, I know because I get feedback from them, some of your listeners, Peter,
spend a lot of a lot more time than the uh mainstream media does these days on climate change and we are heading into an el nino period that is going to be really difficult so the parts of the country um
west of manitoba wildfire season is going to be brutal you probably saw the floods in montreal yesterday uh all of these things tend to bring that issue back into public into the public's mind and it's starting now and it will last for a year so we'll see whether or not that shoots back up onto the radar screen but my sense uh my instinct is that it will
100%, I believe he's vulnerable.
I think that the Ontario Liberal Party and or the New Democratic Party of Ontario need to get their act together.
And they really haven't in the past decade.
But I think he's mostly vulnerable for the reasons that the...
The most underappreciated variable in any equation, Peter, is the value of the variable t, time.
And Doug Ford has been premier for a long time now.
And the last few years tend to erode support more quickly than the first couple of years build it.
And when you look at past Ontario premiers, you've got to go back a long way to find someone who's won four elections.
And I think that's really hard.
I think it's really hard.
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