Rob Russo

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1,284 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 3d ago

Rob Russo’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Raj/Russo -- Behind The Trade War Blues · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

There's been a lot of conjecture as to whether or not the people around the prime minister, and there are some of them, who say let Rome burn had had the upper hand.

They didn't.

If Canada could have gotten a kind of a low tariff agreement on things like steel, aluminum, automotive, forestry products, they would have signed that deal.

They would have signed that deal.

They were ready to sign that deal.

So the suggestion that Mark Carney doesn't want a deal is not true.

They were ardently pursuing a deal.

I think there is something.

David Coletto mentioned something.

I'm calling it the Coletto corollary to all of this.

He's the pollster.

80% of people say Carney was right to walk away from that deal.

The question now is, and Coletto has sort of put this forward, if 80% of Canadians support this and are wary of a deal with Donald Trump, can Canada, can this government actually enter into any kind of a deal with Donald Trump?

Or are we at the point where, I think it was Chaucer who said, if you suck with the devil, bring a long spoon.

There is no spoon long enough to have dinner with Donald Trump.

Well, there was an exchange of texts.

I think Jameson Greer has said there's been texts exchanged, but nothing in the way of negotiations.

And so now we're on the escalation ladder is where we are.

And Donald Trump has a much bigger ladder than we do when it comes to escalation.

And I think Althea raises an important point about the prime minister's mandate.

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