Konstantin Kisin

What do you see?

What do you think?

Well, on the cultural level as well, a lot of things seem to have happened.

I mean, you talk about free enterprise, but what about just people being free to speak their mind, to make their own decisions?

One of the things that we were frankly, truly horrified by, even given that COVID restrictions in this country were pretty stringent, is some of the things that happened, people who were protesting against things in Canada, having their bank accounts taken away.

We had supporters of our show writing in going like, please, can you cover this?

Is there something about Canada, the Canadian psyche, that made you guys more susceptible to this?

Is it just you had a particular leader at that time who was more authoritative?

What was that about?

Well, you're focusing on the narrow economic part of it, but I think what Francis is alluding to is there's a... It's the same thing, though.

Well, is it, though?

Because there's a cultural and ideological dimension to this as well, because, say, the policy of net zero, which is just economic suicide.

It's the same thing.

Well, you were poised to be in the position to implement that vision.

I think a former prime minister kind of described the relationship, being next to the US, you like quoting this, like sleeping next to an elephant.

Doesn't matter how peaceful it is, every twitch and grunt.

affect you.

I put it to you, the elephant is wide awake now and it's stomping around and you might like that, you might dislike that, but is Trump's behavior towards Canada the reason you didn't become prime minister?

Well, you pivoted very well from my question, but it sounds like the Trump behavior was not helpful to your election.

When Trump was talking about how you should become a state.