Andrew Coyne
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2,831 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 22 Sep
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I don't I as I say, I think in their current mood, a lot of Canadians wouldn't wouldn't mind being thought of as n as nasty by by Donald Trump.
Um so it that's not gonna work with most Canadian with most Americans, but it may with with the MAGA troops themselves, and there may be some benefit to
at least presenting yourself as being r um prepared to make deals, prepared to make concessions.
I don't know.
It it you know, this is all speculation.
If it's just
You know, on the surface, uh, we're prepared to make these concessions 'cause we're so desperate to get a deal.
Um, then I come back to my first point.
I j I just don't see what the percentage there is because the deal that you get will not turn out to be a deal.
Yeah.
Well I mean even even a labor negotiation, even a relatively simple labor negotiation with management and labor, if it's at all customer facing.
uh is a very political thing.
There's a lot of attempt to try to um uh work the refs, if you will, to try to to to massage public opinion to see it your way, particularly if it's anywhere near politics.
So even that is y y you you always have to look at about four different ways to to interpret what people are
or or saying and doing.
Now add the complexity of not just Canada-US relations, but internal Canadian politics, federal-provincial dynamics.
For example, the issue of uh should we be prepared uh to use um energy as a bargaining chip in these talks?
Well, if you just looked at it in pure logical terms, you might say, Yeah, you know, the United States needs our energy.
This is something we could actually uh could actually inflict some pain on them if we're prepared to do it.
It would inflict some pain here as well, but it might be worth it.
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