Bruce Anderson

That in and of itself doesn't mean they're going to start saying today things that sound conciliatory.

They're going to do the opposite, which is I think what Chantal was saying.

They're going to try to ratchet up the pressure on us.

They made some changes to the application of steel and aluminum tariffs, which are having a

a more deleterious effect on parts of our economy than what was happening before.

You saw Jameson Greer saying, well, we do want to do more with Canada on energy and critical minerals, but we don't want Canada to try to use that as leverage in the conversation, which is an incredibly hopeful but also naive kind of interjection.

But at least it was better than Canada sucks today.

which is what we were hearing from Howard Lubnick only, what, two weeks ago.

So I think the chemistry is changing, and changing to Canada's advantage, and that's where I think the Canadian political conversation is strange from the conservative standpoint, to be honest.

Yeah, one thing has changed quite a lot.

Okay.

You know, from my standpoint, a year ago, the reaction that Canadians were having to what Trump was saying and doing was,

was a lot of fear, a lot of apprehension that there wasn't going to be anything that we were going to be able to do to withstand severe economic pain.

And so, too, would be the feeling in the rest of the world that we're experiencing Trump's comments.

Today, Canadians don't look at it that way.

They are still stressed.

They still know that America can do harm to our economy.

but they're more resolved.

They've been through a year of this and

For many people, while the cost of living continues to be too high, things haven't been getting worse because of what Trump's doing.