James Moore

I'd like to say yes, but you hear the energy in my voice is because I learned through some of the searing experience.

But for us, the origin story goes back further, right?

It goes back actually to 1993.

It wasn't 2004 when Stephen Harper won a minority, not a majority.

but 1993 yes the progressive conservatives crashed down but i was on the reform party side of the family i first came into politics as a volunteer for the reform party in 1993 as a 16 year old and so for us it was 52 seats and then in 97 it was 60 seats and then it was 66 seats in 2000 and it was kind of this you know let's go like adding a dozen seats and like keep moving keep moving and then 100 seats in 2000 124 into into in 2024

And, uh, and sorry, a hundred and whatever seats in 2024, 124 seats in 26.

So it was like, come on, come on.

And it was by then it was like five elections.

So then it was 2008.

We want a minority.

We hope to get a majority felt, you know, the bottom fell out in Quebec on culture files, 2011, we get a majority.

Okay.

here we go.

So, but the, the big shift for us was we would, you know, we would do it if we were in government, we would do it.

Then you get in government and say, well, we would do it if we had a majority, we would do it if we had a majority, then you get into a majority that it's finally, okay, here we go.

And then the expectations were there.

So we, by then some of the big cultural files for the conservative movement, particularly the long gun registry and other things, um, we, we had to move on like in the first quarter of that government, if we didn't, then all of our credibility would go with the base.

By default, our system is wired culturally and structurally towards majority governments, right?

Six of the last eight elections have yielded minority parlance, but culturally, frankly, whether it's through the French Catholic tradition in deference to church leadership or on the English side, through the Westminster model, et cetera, and the way in which things have been approached, and also in provinces, almost every province in this country,

um is is a binary choice and therefore almost every provincial election yields a majority government of one color or the other and they're and they're all unicameral in and in their in their approach to things i mean quebec has had a different tradition but but basically all unicameral and and so and so people are wired that if i vote a certain way that's what i'm going to get and they're in control and they drive the car for a couple years and then i'll judge them and see what the alternative is