James Moore

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?

Ford.

Like, people...

identify increasingly with leaders and personalities as a chapter of a political party's sort of long string of narrative, as opposed to, I always vote for the Ontario Liberal Party.

And there is some of that.

There's the habit of voting for that party, unless there's a leader that you find particularly distasteful.

But

For the most part, for the passive voter, for the people who kind of come and go and float in and out, but show up when there's a crisis, when their parents tell them that elections really matter.

We have parliamentary system, but we have presidential style politics.

And so when that's the case, and when you have a leader who is succeeding and seems to be the, for lack of a better phrase, man of the moment, that's extraordinarily accretive to them in terms of positioning themselves to build that bigger tent.

I would say no, because Donald Trump is so caustic politically and problematic to the Canadian economy.

I think you'll see the opposition parties, they will tools down and Pierre Polyab has effectively done that.

Right.

So when it comes to Kuzma and the reconsideration of Kuzma this summer,

Going into the fall, we'll see what happens in the midterms and how bad it is for the Republican Party, what that means in terms of boxing in Donald Trump, you know, at least legislatively.

But he may become, therefore, more belligerent with his rhetoric.

And we'll see.