James Moore

You would come to an event,

an agreement and then you would say somebody needs to talk to the house leader that they need to have this position on this or somebody needs to talk to the leader and typically it would be the chair of the bc caucus who would then reflect that view upwards into the system and and uh and all that and then you would break and then you would walk across the street from we would meet in east block you go into center block then you come together for the national caucus meeting so all the regional caucuses come together national caucus meeting typically at the front of the room the

The prime minister sits in the middle of the room.

The full leadership team, house leader, whip, caucus chair, Senate leader, they sit at the front of the room, usually up on a dais.

So eye contact, body language, we can observe each other and have a proper connection and all that.

You have microphones too set up in the room so members of the caucus can speak.

There's an agenda.

The prime minister usually speaks first, talks about the week that happened, talks about the week ahead, the wins, the losses, warning signs.

Sometimes they're really happy meetings.

Sometimes they're really dark meetings, all the usual stuff.

And then the House leader will give a speech on or talk about what's happening in Parliament.

The whip will give a talk about what's happening with the votes.

Senate leader will give an update on the Senate.

Then there's, we would typically have an open mic moment where individual members of caucus can go to the queue up at the microphones.

open mic and you can say for a minute or so, this happened last week.

I love it.

More of it.

This happened last week.

I hate it.

Less of it can ask for different cabinet ministers.