Chantel Hebert

You are basically doing the opposite, and you are making it easier for Carney to hold his ground on Kuzma by convincing more Canadians that there is absolutely nothing that will lead to a good faith agreement or one that will be respected by this administration.

Of all of the things that Canadians know about Mark Carney,

even those who don't follow it daily as we do, is that he is presided over a significant and is presiding over a significant increase in military spending on all kinds of fronts.

But this comes across, when you look at it, comes across like a replay on a larger stage of the drama over fentanyl crossing the border.

Remember that?

Yeah, those minute amounts that were drowning the U.S.

in fentanyl, the border bill that resulted from that, the contention in the U.S.

that fentanyl is still flowing through the Canadian border, which it never did and is still not.

And now it's military spending, which is already in play in this country.

So with every passing move like that, I was struck totally because this was also the week when, again, the bridge between Windsor and Detroit collapsed.

came back in the news, I thought, gee, you know, what a successful strategy you guys have that the mayor of Windsor is actually telling the prime minister, don't give in to open the bridge if it means giving in and making major concessions on Kuzma.

This is the person who is at ground zero of this operation to not open a bridge that is completed.

And he's saying, hold on, hold firm.

And to me, that mayor was kind of a poster person for how

The administration with every move is just making it easier for Mark Carney to have a consensus backing him.

Who was the first person I saw on ex-criticizing the U.S.

over the military joint committee move?

Aaron O'Toole, of all people.

who's also been very vocal on X about the F-35 contract and how, yes, he still believes it's the best airplane.

But given the way that this is happening and the circumstances, I think he compared that to that you're looking to buy a car, you're interested in buying a car, but the car salesman keeps berating you.