Bruce Anderson
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first heard May 2026
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But we're going to do other things, too.
And I think that
Maybe this week is a bit of an inflection point where more evidence was on the table for people of the more opportunities that there are for the country.
And so that's why I think this week was important, not that it started a process of change in the country, but that process that was already underway took a new gear.
The second thing, Chantal, I think put her finger on it exactly.
These are ideas, whether it's the EU or the treatment of airports, that people are open to.
Doesn't mean that they're settled.
Doesn't mean that people are immediately saying, well, we love this idea because Mark Carney's for it.
But it also means that people on the other side of it who are reflexively saying, hell no, we can never do that,
are missing the mood.
They're missing the fact that people actually believe that they should and need to hear a good argument against before deciding that they're going to oppose.
And just for full disclosure, I wrote a Substack piece that touched on some research that I had done for one of the groups of pension funds that's interested in this shift in how airports operate.
Our research did suggest that people were open to this, but I was careful to write that there will be debates about prices and impact on consumers and service standards, and there should be.
But for me, that degree of openness contrasted with what I remember from researching the privatization of Air Canada in the Mulroney years, where the reflexive instinct was something is going to be lost and we need to probably not
in this direction.
Eventually they did.
But that openness also translates into this EU conversation where we saw
You know, the Conservatives really struggle with what do they say about it that makes sense as a party that has been a champion of more open trading relationships, but ends up wanting to express a kind of an anti-Europe view that sounds like an echo of Donald Trump.
And so they're left being against doing more with China, against doing more with Europe.
for kind of a make-believe solution with the United States of let's just go back to free trade.
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