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 Conversation Encore - Is Ottawa Ready For A Possible Two Front Referendum Battle? · 12 Aug 2026 podcast

is not doing well in Quebec, and a liberal prime minister whose French is very, very rough and who relies on others to tell him what to say in order to be seen to be empathetic and supportive of the province of Quebec.

That's not a great combination, just at a high level, to say that we have those personalities, the charisma in the sense of appreciation for the frustrations that Quebecers have of staying in Confederation.

That creates anxiety for me.

by the way, if you're feeling my view that you have an obligation to think about what could be possible and sort of seeing around the corner, what if, you know, like the United States can say that they're going to supply Canadian steel with U.S.

steel.

They can't do that with aluminum.

There's a lot of the energy grid that exists in the northeast of the United States that comes from Quebec.

What if three months, six months from now, maybe after the midterms, I don't know, something, but Donald Trump does start doing sectoral deals with Canada in the lead up to Kuzma?

And what if there's a carve-out that is very accretive to the province of Quebec on those core elements?

Part of the agreement that I think a lot of Quebecers have, which is...

So I'm comfortable within Canada so long as there's cultural accommodation.

I'm comfortable within Canada so long as the sum is better than the whole of its parts.

I'm comfortable and I'm happy to be in Canada so long as I have the passport, the dollar, the trade agreements that are all a net benefit to Canada.

But if each of those things one by one is not better, that my cultural accommodation is being threatened because the CBC is going to get blown up or there's

There's not a sensitivity to the uniqueness of the Quebec nation and this North American footprint of all English that like, and those things aren't being recognized or understood.

And we have a prime minister who doesn't speak French very effectively.

We have an official opposition leader in Ottawa who wants to blow up cultural institutions that protect my culture.

And then on top of that, the Americans are going to give us these trade access dynamics that'll protect the, and make Quebec whole in a way that Ottawa is not protecting us, but America is offering it.

And if, if,

You get my point that if these things start to start wrapping together, then you start thinking, well, maybe there is a dynamic here that'll be better off and maybe we can be better off.

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