Charlie Angus

He's put the right wing into a box here of if they're going to start to attack the China agreement, I think they're going to start to sound more and more hysterical.

It does have political risk.

The prime minister is going to need to be able to tell Canadians how this is going to help.

And I think he really needs to go to towns like Windsor and Oshawa, the big automaker towns, and say, I've got your back.

We're going to start to look at how we do the production lines here.

He has to, I think, really, it's important that he doesn't leave the auto sector out hanging because there's going to be some uncertainty at this point.

But it's all doable, and it could be a serious win-win-win for Canada at a time when Trump has just said again and again how much he dislikes us and hates us and doesn't want us.

So we're moving on.

Well, we know that, I mean, Canada has basically three options.

One is to like suck up and hope and take some hits in key sectors and life will go back to normal.

That would have been what Canada probably did before Trump started threatening us in January of last year.

The second option is to go for broke and face down and see who blinks first.

We're seeing that many, many people in politics and in business in the United States are getting more and more concerned about Trump's threats with Kuzma because it's gonna create economic chaos.

And maybe the United States, despite being much bigger than us, is going to blink first because of the enormous economic uncertainty Trump's caused.

I think we're looking at the third option, which is Canada has to decide

to stop being a client state of the United States that we've been involved since 1988.

We were sold on free trade.

We were sold on globalization.

What is it going to be the cost for us to be an independent nation that can protect our democracy?

And so instead of a porous border, a back and forth, we basically build a moat.