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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You need to take action.
It was an outside pressure point that forced Canada to the table.
That's not that John Creighton and Paul Martin wanted to do this.
they were forced to have to do this and he had an opposition that was that was clamoring for it but they only had the room to do it because there was a there's a cons there's a clear public sentiment that it needed to be done and the liberals were on their first majority government and the bloc quebecois were the official opposition who were obsessed with the referendum coming up in the province of quebec
And you had the Reform Party as the third party in Parliament who were clamoring for deeper cuts and more aggressive action.
And the Conservative movement, who were the challengers to the Liberals, were broken into two pieces.
The Conservative Party had 52 seats and the PCs had two, but they had 19%, 19% in the popular vote.
They were perfectly split.
So the Liberals had a big majority with momentum, with an outside voice and an opposition parties clamoring for it and an official opposition who was out to lunch and a majority government.
Then they brought in the 95 budget.
Then they had two years to kind of rationalize what they did going into 1997.
And then they were able to get reelected.
And we haven't seen any leadership on the fiscal side, frankly, since then.
Stephen Harper, we got back to a balanced budget after the 08 recession because everything we did was temporary.
But still the size of government grew because we had minority parliaments and we didn't do a lot of the things that a lot of conservatives aspired that we might do.
So the deficit question matters enormously and people can kick the can down the road and say, it doesn't matter debt to GDP ratio and all that.
and but then when it does matter it's going to be calamitous and it's going to be really consequential and you see that jerry pointed out there are voices in the united states larry flink larry fink at blackrock and others who are finally now starting to make some noise and saying that this is actually a problem and so some of the conversation is happening down there unfortunately american politics is captured in a way that it doesn't allow them to deal with this for now
Canada is partly now a victim of this, as I described in the tariff side.
But there's a Canadian version of that as well.
We keep saying it doesn't matter.
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