James Moore

We have a confidence vote coming up.

Look out.

So you have to find different ways in order to appeal to get your

50 dollar checks and 20 dollar donations and 100 dollar donations so you have to reimagine that a little bit you also have to make sure that your caucus doesn't say oh we're not going to have an election until 2029 we're good no no stay on your toes keep leaning in keep showing up keep being aggressive so i think actually everything gets a lot harder and the expectations get a lot harder so when you get a majority congratulations but i hope you're the switch is flipped in your brain in terms of how you're going to approach government because it gets harder

I'd like to say yes, but you hear the energy in my voice is because I learned through some of the searing experience.

But for us, the origin story goes back further, right?

It goes back actually to 1993.

It wasn't 2004 when Stephen Harper won a minority, not a majority.

but 1993 yes the progressive conservatives crashed down but i was on the reform party side of the family i first came into politics as a volunteer for the reform party in 1993 as a 16 year old and so for us it was 52 seats and then in 97 it was 60 seats and then it was 66 seats in 2000 and it was kind of this you know let's go like adding a dozen seats and like keep moving keep moving and then 100 seats in 2000 124 into into in 2024

And, uh, and sorry, a hundred and whatever seats in 2024, 124 seats in 26.

So it was like, come on, come on.

And it was by then it was like five elections.

So then it was 2008.

We want a minority.

We hope to get a majority felt, you know, the bottom fell out in Quebec on culture files, 2011, we get a majority.

Okay.

here we go.

So, but the, the big shift for us was we would, you know, we would do it if we were in government, we would do it.

Then you get in government and say, well, we would do it if we had a majority, we would do it if we had a majority, then you get into a majority that it's finally, okay, here we go.

And then the expectations were there.