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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I mean, you should look up some Hamilton, but let's say Toronto, whatever.
But outside of that access of central Canada, of Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, you're the first from outside of there.
And because you don't have a large francophone constituency in your riding, there's there's has often been, especially with official language policy, a tension between standing up for French language as Quebecers see it and standing up for the French language as the two and a half million French speaking Canadians see.
outside of Quebec see it.
And often the larger francophone diaspora in Canada, whether it's Acadians or people in St.
Boniface or people in Edmonton or people in Millardville, they think, well, official language and language and culture policy is just all about Quebec when it's not.
It's much more than that.
And because you don't have a large francophone diaspora,
footprint in your constituency quebeckers won't be suspicious of you because you're not in that group of the french universe and non and francophone non-quebeckers won't be suspicious of you because you're not a quebecker so therefore you might be able to have an opportunity to sort of bridge the gap and come in fresh and say i will do my best to be empathetic and and support the french language within the north american context because i have no bias against you and i'm trying to do my best
And I have no, I'm not coming to the fight with Quebec with a sword because I'm from St.
Boniface or I'm from a Francophone community outside of Quebec and I'm trying to defend French against the Quebec obsession about language and culture within Canada, as some people see it.
So, yeah, so his goal, his view was...
You have no tethers.
You have no bias.
Go into this with a fresh mindset.
Try to grasp the whole dynamic that we're dealing and rustle this portfolio to the ground.
It became a burden for our government.
It became a stress on our government.
It became a vote loser for our government.
And we need you to rustle this back to neutral at minimum and try to gain some victories for us in a way that would be not only good for us politically, but good for the country because this –
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