James Moore

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

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Moore-Butts Encore Episode: Is Trump's America Any Different Than Germany in the Mid-Thirties? · 26 Aug 2026 podcast

So it's our second largest trading partner, but but much smaller.

But the opportunities are there.

I think we're back actually into, and um sorta liberals who may hear this or partisan liberals who hear this, but but I actually think we're back into a Harper dynamic with China that is kind of a trust but verify on a commodity by commodity basis.

In the in the nine almost ten years that Stephen Harper was prime minister, we did spend a lot of time in

In China.

We had you know s uh uh tensions between the countries, but but it was it was a focused engagement on things around sub uh uh commodities on which we thought, and I think it was proven to be true, um commodities and exchange and economic opportunities around which there was some Canadian understanding, fighting really hard to get into China so we can sell more pork and more uh more uh um agricultural products.

Fighting so that China would give Canada approved destination status.

So we could have more Chinese tourists coming into Canada and filling hotels and ski resorts and and those ki types of things.

Like stuff that is kind of low-hanging fruit for good engagement that could pave the way for maybe more liberalization when time is right.

But easy stuff.

And and I know it's true that in the whole time that Stephen Harper was prime minister, the one minister who spent more time in China than any other cabinet minister was Jerry Ritz.

Agriculture minister going to the going to China and talking about pork products and beef products and pulses, like all these things and canola and some of the stuff that still hangs over today.

Because for most Canadians, we understand that, frankly, that the soil in China has been farmed for literally centuries longer than our soil has.

So we have opportunities to sell products to them and to nourish a country and to provide food and things to parts of the country that are growing in ways that are not sustainable.

And that's a massive opportunity.

And everybody's okay with that.

But when you get into technologies and stuff, it's it's harder.

So I think we went through that.

And then in the early years of Prime Minister Trudeau's government, I know that there was a a a real effort to possibly go down the road of having a free trade agreement with China along the lines of what was done in in Australia, which was a slow decades-long walk.

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