Althea Raj

How are we supposed to know that?

I don't have a line into Donald Trump's thinking.

I will say that I think...

Well, from what I know of the Canadian side, I think there is a hope more than a strategy that Donald Trump is too focused on what's happening abroad, that he is going to stop picking on Canada.

And that seems to be kind of like the conventional wisdom around the prime minister that he will realize or realizes or those around him realize that having this fight with Canada and the leader to the midterms is not a

winning strategy and would cause more harm to americans than it would do good um but i don't know if that's just them not wanting to embrace the possibility that that's not where the president goes or if that's really what they're getting from their inputs that convinces them that that's really that they should take comfort in that thought okay

The story doesn't make any sense to me.

Um, it's off brand and you see that Doug Ford is struggling with that to Rob's point yesterday at the, uh, the business summit in Ottawa, he was talking about how like, there's going to be a council of the Federation meeting in PI.

And he was like, ah, do you have room for us?

You know, I could just sleep in a trailer and, uh, talking about how he's like, how he is a sound fiscal manager.

And so was every other premier.

Um, so you can, you can see that he's struggling with the hit to his personal brand, um,

It doesn't seem to make any financial sense.

As far as I understand, the premier took a charter plan to go to Texas to that big meeting where he's trumpeting all the deals that he signed.

A charter makes much more financial sense, as in you're not loaded with these costs.

The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, as I understand it, has a plane that the Premier can use.

I'm not a plane expert, but I'm told that there's a lot of runaways where this jet could not land in Ontario if the point is to bring him to smaller communities that have a gravel runway so that he can meet more people and be more accessible and he's not wasting time between...

I don't know, smaller charters and long connections at airports.

It just doesn't make any sense.

Also, does the government own the plane already?