Chantal Hébert

And here we are at a juncture in history where it does matter that there is a North American voice that maybe can talk to the Trump administration on different terms at the time when Europe has to reconsider how it's going to deal with the notion that the Trump administration is about to or could be leaving it at the mercy of Russia.

Well, my favorite line on this notion that we are so big is to ask audiences how often did you wake up in the morning wondering what Norway thinks about something?

So let's keep things in proportion.

I do think, and you can tell it from our perspective, from the coverage, there is a lot more information.

foreign coverage of Mark Carney's government and whatever he has to say than I have ever seen about any prime minister, and I include Brian Mulroney's efforts on apartheid.

But you will see Mark Carney's name in the New York Times and the Guardian and their French equivalent.

A lot more often than Justin Trudeau, for instance, once the initial excitement over the dynasty, the Trudeau name, had kind of faded.

But the downside of this is that if we're taking up a bit more space, it's also by default.

This is not a time when the UK and France...

and Germany are in strong leadership positions for all kinds of domestic reasons beyond the usual Trump thing.

And that basically leaves Mark Carney as the man standing, the leader standing with the more solid footing today.

We'll see where we are a year from now.

We're also the closest to Trump.

And so the Trump-Canada relationship is of interest to Europe.

Greenland, Denmark, the list is long.

And we have been one of the staunchest allies of Ukraine since Russia has attacked Ukraine.

And that is one legacy of Justin Trudeau that Mark Carney has picked up and has been running with.

Can't leave the kids table forever.

Or does it matter to the others that he's there is also a question a year in.

Because this is someone who likes to meet with people who will spend the time that they are with him telling him how great he is.