James Moore
speaker
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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You have an obligation as a political leader and as a government to imagine the possibility, then imagine the reaction to the possibility, then imagine the reaction to the reaction.
Like that's part of your responsibility as government, right, is to think about the unthinkable, not to dwell on it obsessively because you have to deal with the here and now.
You have to deal with the mess that's at your feet.
But you have to sort of look on the horizon a little bit and imagine and think about it.
And so, you know, one year from right now, we could have a Pensee-Québécois government in the province of Quebec, sure.
But a PQ government doesn't necessarily mean a referendum.
We've seen that multiple times, right, in relatively recent history.
There's the threat of it, but it didn't happen.
Pauline Marois didn't do it.
I mean, there was a majority-minority dynamic there and all that.
It's true to say that Quebecers...
I remember somebody once said about the Reform Party, they said, I'm not a right-winger, and they may be bastards, but they're our bastards.
They're from the West, and they're going to stand up and fight for us.
And I think there's an element of a lot of Quebecers who just say, they'll go to Ottawa, or they'll go to Quebec City, they'll make some noise, and they'll shake their fist, and they'll fight for us, and if they threaten, they threaten, but I don't think they'll actually do it.
And in the end, it'll be a referendum, and I don't really want it to happen.
So I think there's a lot of...
But you have to be careful about what you unleash if you unleash the beast and that things could spiral out of control.
And so I do imagine a scenario, a worst case scenario, where you have a government in Quebec that is elected, that is Pensee Québécois, who has a portion of its base, who have an expectation, who are absolutists, that the goal is to get to that sovereignty moment or some kind of sovereignty association.
And then, frankly, in terms of federal political leaders, you have an NDP leader who is not bilingual, not Francophone, not Francophile in either of the two front runners who are currently leading the conversation for NDP leader.
Pierre Polyev, who aspires to do well in Quebec, but.
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