Peter Mansbridge

All right, Jerry, your party witnessed the opposite, right?

It went from majority in 2015 to a minority in 2019.

Now you could argue that's because you weren't there anymore.

Well, you could argue that.

But what about the reverse?

You obviously see the difference in the reverse.

Gerry, you were at the convention over the weekend, and there was at one point the Prime Minister in his speech talked about a parliament of a degree of unity, that people ought to pull together from all sides on this, given the situation the country's facing and the different difficulties and the changing world nature.

How far away is that from a government of national unity?

All right.

I want to get to how far you take this idea of, you know, it's kind of operating together, working together, you know, having a parliament that is kind of together, you know, when we're, when we've seen governments of national unity in the history books and,

They're actually that, you know, like people literally get together.

You take the opposition leader and put that person in the cabinet.

You know, we saw in the First World War, Second World War, times of national crisis.

Are we talking that?

Are we talking that that's as far as it could go or it could go that far?

He should have got rid of it one more time in 2004.

God, what would we do without John Chrétien?

No kidding.

There's never been anybody like that, the stories we could tell.

But before we take our break, Jerry, your thought on this.