Chantal Hebert

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.

I don't think anything will be resolved by then, but we are working against

some kind of a summer deadline.

I think we feel collectively a bit more in control than we did a year ago, where there was this sense that we were going to be pushed and eventually crushed against the wall and ultimately powerless to do very much about it.

I saw that Angus Reid poll this week that showed public confidence really high, despite the absence of progress and the fact that the opposition parties, rightly so in their role, have been pointing out that there has been

very little actual progress on the trade file over the past year.

Despite that, high level of confidence that we will arrive at some solution, as opposed to a high level of fear that everything is going to break down, that Canada is broken, the relationship is broken.

But I also think

It matters what happened over the past year to Mark Carney.