Rob Russo

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1,284 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 4d ago

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The Bridge with Peter Mansbridge · Reporter's Notebook - Raj and Russo on Canada/Us and Much More · 2 Jun 2026 podcast

And in the meantime, in the meantime, great swaths

of uh the electorate are are losing their jobs their jobs are disappearing in southern ontario and in quebec uh and and we need something quick on the horizon to help them certainly tariff relief would help them but in the interim we're going to need something else and diversifying trade is not going to help them in the short term okay um i i guess where that leaves me is

There is not a contradiction.

You can do both.

Okay.

It isn't a contradiction.

I think it's fair to paraphrase the Prime Minister that he campaigned on the poetry of nationalism and now is forced to govern in the prose of the reality of geography, without a doubt.

I don't know if it's a contradiction to say that you want to increase democracy

trade with the United States while diversifying.

I think you can say that.

But did he campaign on crass nationalism?

He did.

Here's the other reality, though.

We see this as a win-win.

There are no win-wins with Donald Trump.

He wants the other side to lose.

So that's the other reality that we're about to run into.

There can be very few wins for Canada under a Donald Trump regime or scenario.

And so we need to prepare for that.

He's not a guy who understands win-win.

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