Rob Russo

We saw that with the certification or looming certification of the signatures for a petition calling for a referendum.

So all of those questions are swirling around and I think

that if the prime minister had a mechanism where he regularly met with MPs from his caucus, not in the caucus room, but in a setting, the way other prime ministers have done, where once a month he might invite them for lunch to Rideau Cottage or something like that, he might find that that might be useful.

Apparently he's not doing that sort of thing, and MPs are having trouble meeting with him.

And I think that's causing problems as well.

The reason why that explosion isn't going to happen, and this is from some people who are concerned, let's say, call them progressives, is because even they recognize this is a guy with an approval rating of 60% plus.

And how are you going to try to nudge a guy who has that kind of political muscle?

Clearly, Canadians, even if the support is aspirational, support Mark Carney in a huge way.

But like a lot of Canadians, there are people in the Liberal caucus waiting for him to show a few cards.

And primarily there, the one that some progressive liberals are concerned about is the tanker ban.

They fought for the tanker ban because they thought that that kind of pristine coastline, the threat would be too high with that kind of shipping through there.

You know, it's interesting.

Mary Simon's time has come to an end now as governor general is coming to an end.

People forget one of the reasons why she became governor general when she was appointed, there were blockades across the country.

First Nations people were actually holding up the economy of the country by blocking critical rail lines and other things.

And so we forget that

that that first nations were frustrated as well and had a direct impact on on our economy there is a concern that that could happen again at the same time we do have albertans who are wondering whether or not the country still can work others outside of alberta are wondering can we do big things in canada and for good or for bad and this troubles a lot of liberals it troubles a lot of some of the liberals around the prime minister

the notion of a pipeline, particularly this kind of a pipeline, has become the barometer as to whether or not Canada still functions as a country.

Before I would make that a barometer, I would ask private industry, are you prepared to put up your own money?

Are you going to invest in this?