James Moore

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3,438 appearances 16 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 15 Sep

James Moore’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Moore-Butts: What Happens "Inside The Room"? · 15 Sep 2026 podcast

And that's what can happen in trade negotiations. matched

If the opposition parties or the provinces or people in the media are forcing the government midstream, mid-conversation to divulge and be open about what's on the table, whether it's regard to supply management or quotas or language policy or IP or whatever, that just you have to at some point allow the government to govern and know that you're going to be able to matched

Punish them if they get it wrong. matched

And believe me, those of us who have been there, we know that when we get it wrong, the claw hammer waiting for us at the end of the process. matched

They're not stupid. matched

They know what they're doing. matched

They understand the weaknesses of their argument. matched

They understand the political risks of it. matched

They're trying to get to a place that is a creative and beneficial to Canadians that Canadians will like. matched

They're not trying to just have an agreement and then try to force sell it to Canadians. matched

There's a, there's nuance and a dance to this and it's complicated and it's so, so people need to understand that. matched

And with the counterparts on the other side of the table that we're dealing with, it makes it that much more challenging for the government to be rational about this. matched

I spent all of gaming out, okay, if this, then that, then that, then this, then if that, one of these things, and if one of those things, then that thing. matched

And I think a lot of time is spent sitting around sort of thinking about that in a very sober, clear-headed way of just sort of, well, if they do that, they do that, and if we do that. matched

And you do that in all of the parts of what a deal would look like, but at the core, at the end of it, and I think that people have focused on this appropriately, is matched

which is that really it's true that a deal is only as good as its partners' character is in enforcing it. matched

And I think Canadians have very clearly arrived at that. matched

And I think we just know that, you know, look, imagine Mark Carney, who has now built up this, and not Mark, but the circumstances, by the way, not just because of the fall apart of this particular deal a few weeks ago. matched

This has been a decade of energy that has built up around Donald Trump that is now finding its voice and finding its footing. matched

This decade of energy about Donald Trump and the distrust and the dislike and all of that, which is substantive and reasoned. matched

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