And so that may have positive impacts for the government, and how it makes decisions and makes things decision quicker, but I'm not sure it makes decisions better for the country or for parliamentary democracy.

Nathan? I was talking to some executives here in Vancouver this morning about a firm that's going through some changes, and they're running into the key man-risk complex, right, where so much of what that business is about relies on the founder, in that case, leading.

Um, and so much of the business of success has been pivoted around that reputation, large corporation, not a small thing, but it's, it may be a 70% hit to what they do.

Um, this is sort of an interesting moment as Gary's talking about that we've had leadership led politics for a long time.

Leaders matter more and more and more.

It seems every generation.

Um, and we're seeing that in the States, um, I would say that the risk for the government is the concentration and funnel through Mr. Carney, who, as Rekha said, is really well regarded right now, seems the man for the moment, and has what I'd say is a pretty high threshold of trust with Canadians.

So was the NDP's summer cool, lukewarm, or hot? And what will be the main focus of the party in the coming months?

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the House of Commons in Canada said you shouldn't read from paper unless you're quoting somebody, or it's a bunch of stats or something very technical that you have to get understood.

Otherwise, if you're gonna talk about something, here's a radical idea, you should know what you're talking about and be able to speak on behalf of the people you represent rather than...

Because whether it's coming from ChatGPT or Gemini or whatever, or a 21-year-old intern that wrote your entire speech for you, the point, the whole point of the exercise is that we're listening to each other, we're debating, and heaven forbid, we have our minds changed, and the only way that happens is if we have a conversation like we're having this morning, rather than what we usually see in Parliament, which is just a bunch of prepared stuff.

It drove me nuts when I was in Parliament, 'cause I just wanted to talk to people, hear their views on something, learn something myself, maybe change a mind or two as we went along the way, and I think that's what Canadians should expect from us.

... what are the exceptions? Like, that's the question.

Yeah, so it...