Bruce Anderson

thing and the truth is that and Chantal finished I think on this point is that

Davos, which was about more resilience and independence and self-reliance and new trade arrangements and new partnerships, that can be true at the same time as what the Prime Minister was saying yesterday, which is deeper integration in key sectors.

That's a good thing for both of our countries.

Both of those things can be true, but I think sometimes the logic of the news business is

makes it want to seem as though there's a contradiction, there's a political mistake being made or something like that.

Anyway, I didn't see that in this speech.

I do feel, as I was reading the stories with that headline, what probably a lot of people do, which is that my Canadian DNA reacting to the experience of life under Donald Trump's watch

is it makes me want more ballistic messages.

I want that Canadian voice to sound angry, frustrated, annoyed at the apparent lack of knowledge in America about the relationship and what it means to their economy, not just to ours.

But that's not...

you know, just because I will feel better if I hear that emotionally doesn't mean it's the best thing to do.

And it certainly doesn't mean it's what the prime minister's job is.

The prime minister's job is not to do the best performance of an angry Canadian prime minister.

It's to get the best outcomes in the relationship with the United States.

And so if he used language,

which caught the attention of more Americans because whether they're Trump voters or not, I think a lot of Americans do want America to be great again, whatever that means, and it will mean different things to the non-Trump people as it does to the Trump people.

So I don't think there's anything wrong about using language that will make Americans pay more attention to what he's got to say.

And then to go on and kind of understand not the nuance of it, but the substance of it, which is that these economies do work better, that we buy more automobiles from America, even though

Trump keeps talking about why do we need Canadian automobiles?

It's ridiculous that these facts aren't out there more.