Bruce Anderson

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2,742 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4d ago

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Good Talk -- Was This The Week Canada Really Changed? · 18 Sep 2026 podcast

So I think today's world is creating a different set of instincts in Canada, for sure, and in Europe.

And those instincts are partly a function of the fact that the world is not the world that it seemed to be, and that you can't rely on the United States to play that stabilizing role in the world and to kind of support a world order in which...

countries can disagree and negotiate and push and shove each other around trade agreements and that sort of thing.

But the fundamentals that have to do with who's going to defend one another, those weren't so much in question.

So I think Canada has two essential things that the Europeans or many of the Europeans will want.

One is this idea of being reliable, trusted, having values that are similar.

If you look at Russia and China and the United States and you say, we don't see that in those countries, that's a really important attribute for Canada.

And the second is a degree of expertise and resources.

And I think the resources and critical minerals and energy are the most commonly discussed ones.

But they are important for those European countries to know that they can have a supply that doesn't depend 95%, as is the case for some products with China or too much on Russia for energy or too much with the United States on technology.

All of those factors, I think, are quite different from the precursors to the Canada-US free trade agreement and really are at the heart of why this conversation has some urgency.

Completely

right.

I think the, you know, politics under Trump has become a horrible reality show.

And it's created this sense of,

holy cow, why can't we have a leader that is thoughtful, that is serious, let alone erudite, and in that content, courageous a little bit, right?

And so what's happened, I think, is that Carney has –

partly by just who he is, but the situation that he found himself in ended up looking like a grown up who's serious about the policy choices available, who is dealing with some kind of crisis dimensions of those policy choices in Canada.

is erudite when he talks about them, not in a way that people can't relate to, but in a way that people listen and lean in and want to hear more about.

And that's unusual.

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