Gerald (Jerry) Butts
speaker
396 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 5 Aug
Gerald (Jerry) Butts’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Nations like the Prime Minister said, Peter, this is boring.
It's all done.
Well, there is one thing, and that is the ferocity of the lobbying, right?
And that's another tip.
assume that when you enter the prime minister's office or you put your hand on your preferred book of worship and swear yourself in as a loyal advisor to his majesty, that people are going to want stuff from you 24 hours a day.
Right.
And I remember, I remember people who'd, some of whom you worked with, uh, James, uh,
that I sought advice from when I started working in the prime minister's office, who would say, just remember that everybody you know now, whether it's a distant friend, someone you haven't seen in 20 years, your uncle who you go to for advice, they're all going to want something from you now 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
And sadly, that is true.
And then you have to conduct yourself accordingly.
There's nowhere where that's more
almost hilariously comprehensive than it is on defense files.
I remember the first six months we were in office.
It seemed like whether it was at the Paris Agreement talks, the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Malta, the lunch at the State Department that John Kerry threw for us and the state visit with President Obama.
Every time I sat down, the person sitting next to me was from Lockheed Martin.
It got to the point where I would sit down at a lunch like this and turn to someone and say, so what is it you do for Lockheed Martin before they'd ever introduced themselves?
And that envelops you like an atmosphere, and that's their intention.
And I think what the government is going through now, and it reflects the big structural change that James just described –
We don't think about Sweden very often in Canada.
And when we do, they're usually wearing hockey jerseys.
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