Rob Russo

We need to spend more.

and rely less on the Americans, but we are doing that job.

And he requires us to be a friendly and cooperative neighbor in order to safeguard the security of the United States.

He's not going to admit that, but it's absolutely true, and we do it every day.

Canadians and Americans are flying over the Arctic every single day working together.

So there are economic reasons, there are geopolitical reasons,

uh first of all uh that it is the althea story is having impact there was excellent journalism uh that there are fault lines emerging uh in the liberal caucus um and and the question of whether or not the prime minister is really a progressive is is one of those uh questions fault lines uh that are being uh opened up i'll come back to that in a second i i think part of the reason that that fault line is being opened up is because there is another one and

A lot of people who call themselves progressives feel like they don't have access to the prime minister.

And that even in caucus, when they raise their concerns, the prime minister can be withering in response.

And so...

So they don't raise them.

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.