Moore Butts Encore - Is This Any Way To Run A Country?
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What is the Moore-Butts Conversations encore and why is this episode being replayed?
And hello there, Peter Mansbridge here. Welcome to the summer of 2026. With the bridge taking a break for the summer, on hiatus as we say, each Wednesday we will be airing an encore episode of our very popular Moore-Butts conversations with former Stephen Harper Cabinet Minister James Moore and former Justin Trudeau aide Jerry Butts. The idea of these chats is not to have a partisan bun fight, but to give us a sense of what happens behind the closed doors in Canadian politics. So throughout this summer, some of the best from the 25-26 season. Hope you enjoy.
And hello there. Welcome to Tuesday. Hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend. Time for a break. Time to give thanks. Time to see the family. Time to travel for some. But it's a nice break. It's an opportunity to get away from things for a couple of days. I hope you had that opportunity. I know some people have to work over the holidays. But most of us, I think, get a chance to take time off. And if you did, hope it was worthwhile. Okay, it's hard to believe, but this is the 25th episode of the Moore-Butts Conversations. This will be a good one, of course. And in a moment, we'll tell you all about it, and we'll get James Moore and Gerald Butts back behind microphones to talk about exactly what they think in terms of the way the country's run.
This isn't political. It's almost constitutional. but I think you're going to find the conversation more than a little bit interesting. At least, that is my hope. That is my wish on the Tuesday of this week. But first of all, as we always do at the beginning of the week, we give you an opportunity to answer the question of the week. And this week's question is, Well, in some ways it goes to the heart of politics in this country, and that could be federal, could be provincial, could be municipal, could be a school board, it could be any number of things. This is the question we're asking this week. Would you consider running for public office? If so, why? If not, why not? Pretty straightforward question.
Would you consider running for public office? I want you to think about that. But not for too long, because this is a collapsed week for any number of different reasons. I'll kind of explain them in a minute. But today is Tuesday. The question has to be answered by 3 p.m. Eastern Time tomorrow. 3 p.m. That's earlier than usual. I'll explain why in a minute. So that's your first obstacle. You've only got, well, you know, 24 hours or so to come up with the answer to that question. And when you do, you put it into 75 words or fewer. And you send it to themansbridgepodcast at gmail.com. themansbridgepodcast at gmail.com. please remember to include your name and the location you're writing from. Okay, want to hear that question one more time?
I mean, I think it's a good question because it strikes to the heart in many ways of our democracy. Would you consider running for public office? And it could be any of those offices I listed, right? In terms of Electoral possibilities. Would you consider running for public office? If so, why? If not, why not? Okay. 3 p.m. tomorrow. Here's the reason why. I'm in Scotland. Later today, I fly back to Canada. Because I have an engagement in Montreal. I'm really looking forward to this week. And then I'm flying back. But tomorrow is when I need the answers. Because I want to put this program together. The Thursday Your Turn plus the Random Ranter. I've got to snap the whip on the Random Ranter too to tell him he's got to be in early.
because I'll put this program together probably late Wednesday night, because the event I'm doing is during the day Thursday, and then I'm flying back on Thursday night. So there you go. There's all my excuses. That's topic number one for today. So let's get to the main topic of the day, which is the Moore-Butts Conversations. James Moore, the former conservative cabinet minister in the Stephen Harper days. Gerald Butts, the former top liberal strategist for Justin Trudeau in the 2015 election. So there you go. There, Moore and Butts. This is conversation number 25.
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