Althea Raj

He says he's never going to sugarcoat things.

He's kind of laying the groundwork for like, I'm going to tell you potentially terrible news.

And I'm going to bring you along with me on this plan.

And we've kind of seen this before.

If you think back to the way Justin Trudeau communicated with Canadians during COVID, and he got a lot of praise for being transparent about what the government knew.

Maybe there was some criticism about being not transparent enough about what the government didn't know and how it was making assumptions, but opening the lines of communications to tell people that,

You know, we're all in this together.

This is what's being done.

This is how we're going to take care of people.

This is these are the hiccups along the way.

And so in that is how I see the Carney team attempting to communicate with Canadians.

I think the Pierre Poiliev team basically did not want to miss the news cycle.

That's why it did not have the glossy, you know, sit down multiple camera shots, very carefully edited response.

The Pierre Poiliev team has a different challenge.

Not only does it want to ensure it's in the conversation, but it is also trying to plant

the seeds of an argument that they're hoping will bear fruit in the months, potentially years ahead, which is this Mark Carney guy, he might have a great CV and he might know exactly what should be doing, but actually he's not doing what he should be doing.

And, you know, we should not be blowing up our relationship with the United States.

So much of our trade is dependent.

We can survive Donald Trump.

They're trying to build a new narrative.