Peter Mansbridge

I mean, set aside the ceasefire and the attempt to find some kind of way out of this.

The damage that's being done to those kind of relationships, you know, it's really over the last year, but especially so over the last five or six weeks.

Is that recoverable?

Right.

We should, just to detour for a second, whenever Suez is mentioned, we have to remind ourselves as Canadians that it was Suez that opened the door to Lester Pearson's idea of peacekeeping.

And eventually he won, as a result, the Nobel Peace Prize for that.

The only Canadian who's ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, a legitimate awarding of that title.

Because at the time, he was a public servant, right?

He was a civil servant in the Foreign Affairs Department.

That's a good point.

I want to get to a question that a viewer or a listener sent in to us in the last couple of days, specifically for you to try and answer.

But to get there, I want to ask this first.

At a time like this,

When there are, clearly there are tensions between us and the Americans.

There are tensions between the British and the Americans.

There are tensions between the Europeans and the Americans.

There are tensions between the Australians and the Americans.

A lot of those places, and a couple of others, are members of Five Eyes, the intelligence community that warn each other of things that are happening.

Right.

So how does that, you know, I mean, the people who are in these intelligence fields are all friends with each other, they know each other, but the countries right now, many of them in that group of five, are not getting along, not by any stretch of the imagination.