James Moore

There are 340 members of parliament.

And, and typically at least this has been the norm for all the, certainly the governing parties is that you, you, you are in frankly families.

And so the, the, the British Columbia for, and when we were in government as conservatives, the British Columbia conservative members of parliament, we would caucus the house and Senate members.

We would caucus on Wednesday mornings.

I believe it was like from eight o'clock till nine 30, eight o'clock to nine o'clock or something like that.

The national caucus meeting goes from nine 30 to noon.

So you,

You meet for an hour, hour and a half, and you talk about British Columbia specific issues, whether it was, you know, policy stuff, political stuff.

You have a chair of the regional caucus, a vice chair as well.

And only British Columbians are in the room.

We would have a staffer from PMO whose desk assignment was British Columbia regional.

defined issues.

And we would have it.

So it's part of it is cathartic, right?

You, you come into a room, you're only British Columbians.

You've all sat in the same flights to and from BC together.

You sit in the same room and you talk about BC issues from a BC lens with the BC nomenclature.

And, and did you see what happened in the provincial side?

You see what's going on and there's, there's some venting and there's some catharsis and all that.

And then sometimes you would have emotion.