James Moore

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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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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Moore Butts Encore - Is This Any Way To Run A Country? · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

She's like, yes, I'm going to be flying out there in the next few weeks.

We're going to have some meetings.

So, OK, well, let's let's start the clock on a 10 year countdown.

Like, what are we doing here?

So, by the way, another layer to all of this about sort of the dysfunction.

I talked a minute ago about how the origin story of Canada, the provinces and all that and where we are today, but also part of Canada's origin story was the Senate.

And the Senate has now fallen apart in the sense of it was originally supposed to be, of course, a regional representation of the country and a deflection point and an opportunity to engage.

And then it was provincially, provincially emphasized fine.

And now it's completely fallen off of that.

Now it's become sort of a.

a bank of people who have a life of experience, who are often plutocrats, who are self-appointed to the Senate because of the way Justin Trudeau decided to reform the Senate in the way that he did.

And they're not at all representative of any of, if you ask most senators, they will say, I'm from this region, but I'm here because I believe in this issue, or because they're representing a certain faction of, I think, of Canadian ideological spectrum.

Not necessarily they're on a regional mandate and they're not elected to do so.

So because the Senate has now sort of constituted that, or because they're appointed because of the

Vanity the Prime Minister.

And this is a blue sin and a red sin.

There's no one party that was right or wrong about that.

So as a consequence of that, now premiers have an obligation to not just govern their province, but be seen to be fighting for their region.

So what does that mean in 2025-26 that Daniel Smith...

going into leadership review, going into a provincial election campaign on the horizon.

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