Rob Russo

And for the piece I did on the majority government for The Economist, I mentioned this.

An advisor to him said that he can be very tough on people who bring him views that he doesn't always agree with or he doesn't think are fully baked.

And so people stop bringing them.

And that's a danger for, I think, a prime minister.

If he doesn't hear some dissent from within his own caucus, then he's only going to be surrounded by people who tell him what he wants to hear.

I think that's a danger for a prime minister.

Now, on the question of

of whether or not he's a progressive.

A lot of these people who call themselves progressives are looking at environmental policy as a test of whether or not the prime minister is really a progressive.

Primarily, they're looking at the pipeline and whether or not he's going to approve a northern pipeline rather than a twinning of the TMX pipeline to the Burrard Inlet.

For a lot of them, that might be a bridge too far, a northern pipeline, particularly if it doesn't have the approval of a substantial number of Indigenous people, of First Nations.

And so...

That's the side of the progressive.

So the reality is it's abundant by what we're seeing lately.

That oil is going to be around for a long time.

Security of supply has become paramount.

And security of supply, even within members of the Liberal caucuses, is supplanting sustainability.

Why?

Because Canadians are losing jobs and it's now become evident that in many parts of the country, not just Alberta, economic survival versus climate change is a real debate.

And by the way, there's a referendum coming in Alberta.