James Moore

When I'm in Canada, I say Port Moody.

When I'm outside of Canada, I say Vancouver.

It's actually pretty huge.

It's tectonic.

It's not, you know, from the outside, people say, oh, well, they have a majority now.

Well, that's interesting.

The government can do whatever it wants.

The truth is, a switch gets flipped, a light switch comes on, and it's a massive cultural shift in a government.

because the expectations around you go through the roof.

And so I think for Prime Minister Carney and for liberals who think that now that they have a majority government, that everything is smooth sailing, it just, the dynamic is very different.

Provinces become, the expectations get much higher.

Big city mayors' expectations get higher.

The base of your party, which might have been a little bit more sanguine and prepared to put some water in their wine and compromise, say, well, if they had a majority, they might.

No, they now expect you to deliver something significant to a part of the reason why that they're a member of the party.

The Liberal Party and the Conservative Party, when they're at the peak of their powers, are both brokerage parties and they're made of constituent parts.

And those constituent parts expect deliverables.

They expect either, you know, conservatives that want lower taxes or tougher crime or something related to families or whatever.

whatever the code of the day is.

And liberals have their version of that, either expanded social services or something specific on official languages or go a little further on gun control or whatever it is.

And those constituent parts just say, especially in the current context with Prime Minister Carney, they say you've got