Bruce Anderson

There's no evidence that Iran needs to capitulate anytime soon.

Trump just keeps on pumping out these social media posts, which seem increasingly unhinged and a bit irrational and certainly disconnected from...

the price of gasoline and the cost of living for Americans.

So for Canada to be able to say, we've tabled proposals, we'll go back to the table when they're ready to come back to the table and have a conversation about a comprehensive Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement, but we're not going to go back to the table to talk about one thing or another thing that might be of interest to the Americans.

For the average Canadian voter who's following this, that sounds like an eminently reasonable position.

The Conservatives haven't figured out that the best place for them to be right now is to hold their tongues or say that is an eminently reasonable position and we stand behind it.

Yeah, if we try, I agree with that.

I think if we try to imagine the Americans, you know, Republican HQ kind of thinking this through in terms of their political situation, they...

And you say, well, let's imagine that there are two broad theoretical choices.

One is to start, again, pounding on Canada as a kind of recalcitrant, bad neighbor, bad friend, leeching off the American economy.

Let's describe that as kind of door number one.

And door number two is,

Let's roll up our sleeves and look like we're moving past that phase into maybe a hard negotiation, but a negotiation on the basis of it's better to have a deal than not to have a deal.

And it's understood that Canada has some things that it wants out of a deal.

And we have some things that we want.

To me, the likelihood of Trump.

as unpredictable as he is.

And I hate to, you know, even predict what he would do, but I think the likelihood of him saying, let's go back to door number one, um,

is a lot lower today.

The likelihood that they go down that road of let's work out an arrangement is much greater.