Chantal Hebert

You should demand what you said.

We will still be in the playoffs as of tomorrow, no matter what the outcome of tonight's game.

That's right.

She's on top of it.

Well, I guess we make, for one, we make of all this that whatever Mr. Poitier was saying two months ago is no longer on.

What was interesting from just a domestic inside baseball perspective was that at first when journalists on Parliament Hill went to Mr. Poitier about this,

He didn't really seem aware that some of his MPs were in Washington.

Michael Chong, the foreign affairs critic, was also there.

And he wouldn't answer the question because, remember, back then, Mr. Poiliev also said Jamin Chivani does not speak for the party on this issue.

And when he was asked again, he kind of dodged the question.

But for those who are not keeping track, Mr. Giverny was not given a more formal role in the shadow cabinet since then.

So he still, in theory, does not speak for the party, although he did show up at that meeting.

I was more interested, I'll leave Mr. Poiliev to his caucus management issues, and obviously he does have some, but I was more interested in the perspective from the US administration and Trade Representative Greer in particular, because this took place or that meeting took place as part of an American Chamber of Commerce event

where Conservative MPs showed up, but also the Canadian ambassador to the US and some oil industry, energy industry executives.

And Mr. Greer was there to talk as increasingly you are hearing the administration talk about how we could do great with energy and critical minerals and we want to cooperate with Canada on this.

And I tied this to, earlier this week, the visit of the new Quebec premier, who also got to meet Representative Greer.

And I thought, if I were the Americans, and I was looking at the Canadian position and Mark Carney's strategy on this, which is basically, we are not going to come begging to the table.

We're not going to offer concessions on the way to negotiate more concessions with the Americans.

But if I were looking at this and thinking, this is really not satisfactory, we want them to come with concessions, and they're obviously not doing it.

And Mark Carney at this point looks like he's in a strong position and is backed by a consensus, a multi-partisan group.