James Moore

It'll be reflected more in the rhetoric of things.

But to Jerry's point, though, that it's good to come together and everything I said about the challenges of majority still Stephen Harper would take 2011 to 2015 over the previous minorities every time for all the reasons that Jerry said, because you can do forward planning, you can stage things and all that.

There are seeds of problems that are sewn into all of this that are echoes of the past and what, frankly, Prime Minister Paul Martin had.

At one time, Paul Martin had former NDP Premier Ujjal Dasanjh sitting next to former Reform Party member of Parliament Keith Martin, sitting next to former Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Scott Bryson, and they were expected to get along on everything.

And the only thing they really got along on was they didn't like Stephen Harper.

But, you know, they could get along on some other things, but eventually when those things ran out, and you run out of those things pretty quickly.

So when you have, in this context,

Coming week or coming couple of weeks, you're going to have the former deputy leader of the Ontario NDP sitting next to Marilyn Gladue in the same desk, expecting to have them agree on child care and taxes and pipelines and all that.

I kind of think that that's going to be a bit of a short runway.

They will both agree that Mark Carney is great and Donald Trump is bad.

That's great.

And they'll agree on some major projects, but things will run out.

So when things run out is when things get a little more difficult.

And about that, I have to tell my favorite John Crichton story because it's pertinent to this about the end of majority governments.

2011 may 2nd 2011 stephen harper we finally won our majority i'm in ottawa a couple weeks later for the swearing-in of cabinet i'm on spark street in ottawa with my father and a reporter and we're walking down the like out of a sitcom we're walking down spark street right in front of i remember right in front of the rbc building and like out of a sitcom jean-christian was walking by i said prime minister how are you good and i'll do my christianity

Just bear with me.

He said, hey, James, how are you?

And I said, I'm well, Prime Minister.

How are you?

He said, congratulations.