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

And that doesn't mean you just champion Canada and wave the flag, but you stare down our enemies and you square off with them and you take them on in a really responsible way.

And the role of Canadian Heritage, I mean, I get anxious, I get in about it, is in the sense that if it's only seen as the job of the Minister of Canadian Heritage is to fund Canada Day parties, stand up for free speech, quote, quote, and defund the CBC, that is insufficient to the moment.

And the Trump effect and its aftershocks will long outlast however long he's president and whatever happens in 2026 and 2028.

And Canadians have now set the bar very high that if you're going to be the prime minister of this country, you better have a vision for Canadian unity that goes far beyond just infrastructure bills, lower taxes, and being tough on crime.

And the role of Canadian heritage and culture policy is fundamental to that, that you have to have something to say about...

What does it mean to be Canadian?

And it doesn't just mean that we share low tax rates.

It's that we have a sense of identity.

Yeah.

I mean, look, I came in again at the end of the 08 campaign where it was, it was seen to be that we lost the seats that we needed to get a majority because the bottom fell out of the Quebec campaign over arts and culture.

And I remember he asked me, he knew the answer, but he wanted to make sure that I knew that he knew the answer.

And he said, he said, how, how many, how many Francophones and French speaking Canadians are there in your riding?

And I remember I literally said, I said,

I don't know, like five.

And because now Millardville, which was the largest Frank French settlement West of the red river, Millardville is in Coquitlam.

And that part of Coquitlam is not, wasn't in my writing, but it was adjacent to, but I, I was in French immersion all the way through school.

I'm an Anglophone, but I'm a Francophile.

I speak French.

But his point was,

You're the first heritage minister from outside of the Toronto, Ottawa.

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