Natalie Winters

You got everything from competitor, that's maybe the harshest, to ally, to friend.

But trusted partner going all in, even using an adjective and referring to them as a partner is something.

But even for me, I'm not typically used to hearing that descriptor.

Like I said, I think that part of this is an ideological compromise, right?

They hate the United States, or at least what the United States stands for now, which is secure borders, national sovereignty, the idea that tariffs actually mean something that only works if you believe borders mean something.

And I think that the Chinese Communist Party, the reason why people like Mark Carney are so drawn to the way that they rule, it's not just that they're all to their core Marxists, but I also think they actually just like real autocracy, right?

They like the repression of people who they disagree with, of dissidents, right?

Like we've always said, January 6 was like the American version, I think, of like the Hundred Flowers campaign, right?

They wanna identify opposition only to crush them.

And that's why there's such a convergence there.

Obviously, I could chapter and verse you on what's going on in Canada.

People know that.

But Steve, you've been so ahead of the curve.

And brilliant on it has to do with their northern border, too.

This all has to go back to, obviously, the Chinese.

I think-

I would say having a sort of trying to counter the United States' interest to shore up where our key vulnerabilities are, which is, of course, in rare earths and critical minerals.

And now that the United States has sort of launched a full-scale assault, kind of a whole, not just of government, but a whole of society, right?

You've seen that with the public-private mergers and things like the Mountain Pass mine deal to try to fix that problem.

It's like game on.