Chantal Hebert

And I note that they are playing to both those just to see if those pressure points will elicit a reaction.

But we are not contradicting each other.

That is not to say the Canadian position should be different.

That is to say the Americans also have strategies.

But the clock is speaking.

Not so much progress on either side.

That TikTok is becoming louder in everyone's ears.

The Americans, the U.S.

administration, is under significant pressure to not break Kuzma.

but they are looking for a win.

We look at what the US ambassador has been saying more nicely recently, we can get along.

It's again, energy and critical minerals.

We want to talk about the things we want from Canada and not the things that Canada wants to preserve or wants to protect that we have attacked.

So I think what's happening on both sides is the strategy is becoming

finer, more focused.

And I agree with Bruce that the American position is weakened on a number of fronts because of the Iran war and its consequences that will stay with us for a long time.

But the Canadian position, as we saw this week, economically is also improved because of the Iran war.

Those revenues, there is pain to come from that, but those revenues from oil and gas are fueling the Canadian treasury.

Increasingly, we're going to see weeks like this and different things this week because today is May 1st.

You said, well, July 1st, in theory, is when we should have a better sense of the lay of the land.