Bruce Anderson

There's no credibility for that.

And there's no interest in hearing the bullying of America on military issues or on anything else anymore.

And I think that the Trump administration

doesn't understand at all the degree to which this kind of belly aching will just fall on deaf ears and make the rest of the world more resolved than ever to find other accommodations and to look for other arrangements.

Well, I have a sense that the relationships are not as they appear on social media, that there's an understanding on the U.S.

side of the importance of the integration of the economy.

And there's a, I think at the same time, there's a certain awareness of the fact that, you know, Trump is pulling at 37% approval.

And those are the good polls.

those are the good polls right and so i i saw a poll i saw data on how republicans republican voters were feeling about his handling and it's down 20 points in the last year that's a really meaningful shock even to a administration that doesn't shock easily because it tends to create its own sense of what's true or not so i think for a combination of reasons we're going to see these um

this lashing out stuff in social media.

but I don't think it's entirely reflective of the very detailed conversations that need to happen in order to maintain that economic relationship that many, many, many, many American businesses and consumers depend on.

So whether that means optimism, I don't, that's probably too strong a word, but a sense that realism is gonna descend on the US administration or is already

In terms of the economic realities, probably there's more confidence that that is happening already.

Yeah, I'm interested in that environmental and economic policy tension inside the Liberal Party and Liberal Caucus.

But the thing that I've been thinking about is back to the US administration and the whole question of corruption and whether or not there's some sort of line that gets crossed where people go, no, no, this is enough.

And probably not.

But the pieces that were added to the puzzle in the last little bit

the fact that a sitting president made some 3600 trades of stock including trading the stock and now he did it through some whoever manages his finances but trading the stock of some 20 companies who were represented on the trip that he made to china that was a big thing he was suing the government for 10 billion dollars and said he would settle for 1.8 billion to be put in a fund

that everybody, including Republicans, are calling a slush fund to compensate Republicans who've been targeted by, you know, the Biden administration, which just feels like if it happened anywhere else in the world, you know, the America that we used to know would be the first to say, well, this is a corrupt place.

And it just doesn't seem to be generating that kind of conversation in America.