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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It does matter.
Federal debt and deficit, provincial debt and deficit, household debt and deficit, business debt and deficit, the unspoken deficits that Jerry talked about, about the underinvestment and key things that are going to be catalysts for growth in the future.
Like we have real tectonic problems in our economy.
And, you know, for the last five years, Parliament has been wrapped up in whether or not we're going to expand the dental program.
And, you know, come on, like, are we going to have a serious dialogue or not?
And I don't think we are.
Thank you.
Canada is a confederation.
We say federalism, but that's the interaction.
But four provinces came together and decided to create a federal government.
That's the origin story of Canada.
Upper and Lower Canada, New York, Scotia, New Brunswick came together in 1864 and said, we need to create a federal government such that we can have proper relationships back with Westminster and back with the Crown to redress our grievances, and we'll be better if we're together.
That's how it happened.
So because the provinces created the federal government,
They reserve powers for themselves that would be the most attractive and reasonable for them to deal with so they can transact with their constituents on a daily basis.
The bigger stuff, monetary policy, our continental perimeter security, our trade relationships, criminal code, like broader things, bigger things that kind of are on a human level that eventually became the charter and other things.
We'll let Ottawa, the national capital that hadn't been chosen yet by then, we'll let the federal government do that.
But the stuff that we want to do.
So the provinces chose the powers that were the best for provinces to have back in the origin story of Canada.
And so you see the germ of that now across the country where provinces demand more transfer payments or more powers or more authority.
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