James Moore

Did we read the room right?

What's the follow-up?

Who in the room said nothing but is clearly visibly really upset?

Who needs to be reached out to?

You're managing 200 people of really different personalities and egos, frankly, life cycles.

Some people have been in politics for 20 years and this is their last chance and people are new and they're fresh and they're keen and they're...

Maybe they have a misperception of things.

But it's a big group of egos and personalities that have to be managed.

And you have to take it really serious.

So this is a warning sign coming back to Prime Minister Carney.

This is a big moment for his government and for his caucus management because he is new to this part of it, is that these are –

You know, wildly different personalities with different expectations.

Everybody wants to live a life of purpose.

Most people have chosen public office as their one shot in life to do something really significant, high profile for themselves, their family, their community, their country that they think they can do something meaningful in.

It matters to them and it matters to them when you're asking them to reverse themselves after 10 years of doing going in this direction on carbon taxes or whatever.

It matters to them that they're taken seriously and that you understand you're asking a lot of them to swallow a lot of pride and dignity and reverse themselves.

They're prepared to do it if they can be assured that this is the right thing to do and they have a proper narrative and they're not being made fools of.

These things matter.

Can I tell you a story that I think is apt to all of this?

And it's a warning sign for this life cycle in the government, because you have, he's ported over so many people from the Trudeau time, and then he's trying to onboard his new people and all that.