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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It's normal in politics for people to kind of exploit those divisions and say, I will represent you because the other side won't.
That's good that those divisions can kind of come to the surface and be talked about.
It's to be expected there to be exploited.
But if you're going to play with a firecracker, you've got to be really careful with what you're doing with it.
And we have seen through the course of Canadian history, a lot of recklessness that's brought us really close to the edge.
I would say sometimes yes, sometimes no, which is a non-answer.
But I think, frankly, it depends.
Because then you sort of get a constitutional question period where you just have genuflecting and posturing and rhetoric that can get out of control.
But I think sometimes it makes a lot of sense.
For example, I proposed this in a column that I wrote that on internal trade in Canada, why shouldn't that be televised?
If Prime Minister Carney said, I want all the premiers here, give them enough time and have them in the room and say, we're going to start with the default position of having no internal barriers to trade.
And if you want to erect some for your regional economy on a certain basis, let's have it out in the open.
Let's have you articulate it.
Maybe it makes sense for government procurement in New Brunswick to be isolated only to New Brunswickers and that a big firm from Toronto shouldn't come in.
and stomp out local businesses and and gobble up all the government procurement and you want to protect that for the local new brunswick economy say that say that educate the rest of us tell us why that's really important to you as new brunswickers and let's have that conversation or if quebec wants to isolate culture in a certain way fine say that tell us why you want to have that internal barrier let's educate the country let's have a moment let's do that and i don't think that would be massively divisive to the country
And other times, though, it can be really problematic and really divisive.
And I don't think you necessarily want to have those conversations out in the public.
I'm not as concerned as I think maybe you've intimated, Peter, about this being hinge moments.
Like, you know, all right, well, we had the referendum in 1980 in Quebec.
Well, that was a hinge moment, right?
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