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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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Moore-Butts: Is This An Audition For The Hockey Night Panel? · 26 May 2026 podcast

uh we enjoy the legacy of so many good people of different political persuasions who have worked hard together against all odds to build this awesome place we are lucky enough to call home and i'm one who has always believed that the people who would break that up who would rob our children of the legacy we got from our parents and our grandparents should be confronted and defeated

And if you believe in this country, that's what you should be working toward, whatever your political stripe.

And I would close with, Peter, the cancer that is killing the United States of America is that half of Americans hate the other half of Americans.

And they each think the other is a bigger threat to their country than any external force.

We cannot let that happen to Canada.

And we can't let it happen in Alberta, Quebec, wherever.

There has to be a Paris is the capital of France level of argument that we all agree on in this country and our politics.

And that has to be that it's a great country that can be better.

The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Moore/Butts -- Is Jason Kenney Crying Wolf? · 12 May 2026 podcast

A lot of what James said, especially the local aspect of it.

I think from a practical perspective, the way to defeat

to call this what it is.

It's a small group of people who want to break up the country and leave it.

And history will suggest that the way to defeat those movements is with local forces that articulate very clearly the benefits of

the country that Alberta finds itself to be part of or whatever jurisdiction we're talking about at any given time.

So I think the practicality of James's advice is not, can't be denied that if you want to be effective in countering this force, doing it locally is the best way to do that.

And of course, I think there are a lot of consequential local actors who have not yet spoken.

We talked a

former Prime Minister Harper.

I can imagine what he's thinking of all of this and being the strategic person that he is, I suspect he's hanging back and waiting for the optimum moment to intervene in this.

I think what other Canadians outside of Alberta and some of us are outside of

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