James Moore

Also doing business, normal push and pull of things.

When Prime Minister Carney is, though, at the mid-40s and the Conservatives are in the mid-30s, so you have this strong gap in terms of electoral outcomes.

Some people say, well, he's really popular, so why are people speaking out?

I think people speak out or leak out, at least to Althea Raj, because they think that they can and there's not really any consequence to it.

The Prime Minister has lots of strength and support.

He has his majority in Parliament that will probably be a durable one, depending on how the by-elections go and other floor crossings and if other block MPs leave, the whole dynamic we know.

But if it turns into a durable majority and he's got wind in his sails, well...

maybe now's the time to speak out.

Maybe now's the time to sort of, you know, let my elbows out.

If the, you know, what, seven of the last eight elections have yielded minority parliaments, six of the last eight, rather.

And so when you have a minority parliament, you feel really kind of,

bound in by the risk of the limits of your mandate.

You've got to support the leader.

We've got to be careful.

Things are thin.

We're trying to accomplish what we can.

But now that we have this, then people can start speaking out.

To give credit as well, frankly, to the prime minister, it shows that he's trying to do stuff.

that he's willing to offend people and upset people.

And that's okay.