Gerald (Jerry) Butts
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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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I'm not sure where the government's going to end up.
And I certainly am not expert enough to give them detailed advice on it.
But this is one of those moments where we say the Americans have changed and we should govern ourselves accordingly.
So what should we do?
And we'll still be debating them.
Well, and that's a legitimate point, that there's a long history in military procurement of generals fighting the last war.
And one thing we've seen, and this is part of my day job, I guess, but one thing we've seen in the Russia-Ukraine conflict and in other theaters around the world is
sadly there are more than one these days, is drones are king, right?
And I've had people who know a lot more about this topic than I do describe in gory detail how a drone fleet worth a couple of hundred thousand dollars is busy destroying multi-million, if not billion dollar military installations in the Russia-Ukraine theater.
And China has cornered the market on the drone supply chain.
So why aren't we spending more time talking about that and figuring out how to build that kind of infrastructure in Canada rather than having a debate, which, as you said, Peter, started when Jean Chrétien was prime minister?
joke with them when they say, well, you know, in the United States, we're a little worried about all of this industrial policy everywhere because we don't do industrial policy in the United States.
And I always say, well, somebody should tell Raytheon and Lockheed Martin that you don't do industrial policy because that's how they built their companies.
And frankly, it's how you build your economy.
So this is a core strategic national economic and security interest of the United States, which is why they're so aggressive in promoting it with their allies.
And to answer your question, Peter, I think that the form of the diplomacy has gotten spicier over time as social media has affected diplomacy in the same way it's affected everything else in our lives.
But the aggression and pressure has always been thus, right?
Dwight Eisenhower warned us about this in his final address from the Oval Office as president.
And he's been right ever since.
Well, I certainly agree with James on the prime minister's reaction.
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