James Moore

And federally, it's been starting to stop.

In 2011, in 2008, Stephen Harper tried.

In 2011, Stephen Harper succeeded.

And really having to explicitly say to Canadians, because of the global recession and coming out of it, we will have a focused federal government that will, a steady, stable majority government that will focus on the economy.

Like he had to beat that drum, like very deliberately, deliberately.

20 times a day to every camera that would say it a steady stable majority government that would focus on the economy and it was because of the circumstances and because he had demonstrated that he wasn't a radical uh you know and reactionary prime minister that people said okay given the context given what we've seen and given that you've explicitly said that you're going to focus on the economy i will concede to you a majority government

And that dynamic with Donald Trump, Iran, trade, all that sort of stuff, and Mark Carney's personality as Canadians have now seen it, to Jerry's point, people go, okay, I will concede to you a majority government because it's very hard to earn a majority electorally.

The circumstances have to be aligned.

You have to get that mandate.

And Donald Trump and the way in which Mark Carney has approached it and culturally has aligned and approached things, Canadians seem to be prepared to say, please have that stability on this side so that we can deal with these crises.

He also benefits from from another cultural shift that's happened in our politics.

And we've talked about it before, but it's worth reanimating here.

Right.

Which is we have a parliamentary system, but we have presidential style politics.

Yeah.

So our system, you know, how many seats and which ridings and polls and, you know, the pizza parliament versus... Like, all that's true, but in part because of the diminishment of media capacity, in part because of the shrinking attention span, frankly, of the public and the scrolling and, like, all of that.

When campaigns come around, the cameras are pointed at one person.

And so you ask people in the last election, who did you vote for?

Polyev, Carney, Singh.

Who'd you vote for?