Bruce Anderson

there's something that would be comparable.

But for me, what Carney is being asked to do or challenged to do is to recognize that around Canada and around the world, there are a bunch of different dynamics that require depth and sensitivity and thoughtfulness to a degree that we haven't really been challenged to do as a country.

At the same time, as if there are the normal array of domestic political and public policy issues, our health care system is kind of beaten up, broken down, not really working that well.

There are classic conversations about Indigenous rights, resource development, all of those things.

The kind of the normal issue set for Canada still exists.

There's just this larger screen.

So to some degree, I think that when voters look at Mark Carney, they look at him not so much in the context of just how does he perform on the regular five items.

on the report card for Canadian prime ministers, all of a sudden there's a new five-item list that is more preoccupying for a lot of people and where it's impossible to know exactly how it's going to work out.

So really what people are doing is sort of saying, well, based on what I sense and what I hear and how I think he comports himself, I think he's doing a pretty good job.

So for me, the comparisons are difficult because the agenda for Canada is so different from what we've seen before.

Okay, two-minute warning.

Well, for me, it's still the – I think the war in the Middle East was on three times yesterday and off three times yesterday.

Yeah, it's just –

He lives in my head.

I'm not the only one.

That's right.

No, I think the consequences are so extreme.

And I hate all of the side issues, the sense that there's some kind of private casino operating around Trump's utterances and that people are betting hundreds of millions of dollars on outcomes based on 15 minutes before he says something.

It's shocking the amount of corruption, and it's become normalized.

I'm always patient.