Rudyard Griffiths

Yeah.

One of these, again, anonymous sources that you and I don't like, party sources, was quoted yesterday in the Toronto Star as saying the Liberal Party is the anti-Trump coalition.

It's an interesting idea.

I mean, I don't know exactly how that's being construed.

I think they're trying to explain why you can have MP Gladeau as a social conservative in the same party as the former deputy leader of the Ontario NDP.

It's a coalition.

It's united against Trump.

Whether that's right as a specific diagnostic

at that level, at the caucus level, I do think in some ways it is right in terms of the national mood right now, that the national mood has assigned to the Liberal Party, and particularly to Mark Carney, this idea that it is the anti-Trump coalition.

And they have some suspicions or doubts, fair or not, remaining about Pierre Polyev, who doesn't seem, Andrew, to be able to summit that same bar, to both project himself and the Conservative Party as its own different anti-Trump coalition.

There's a high-speed train to potentially nowhere being contemplated between Toronto and Ottawa.

And Montreal and beyond, in which I'm sure a lot of government MPs and cabinet ministers will enthusiastically support.

And as you say, where's the opposition?

Yeah.

Let's talk a little bit about the fate and future of the NDP in this environment.

I mean, does a liberal majority take some pressure off Avi Lewis that he now potentially has a much longer runway to rebuild in, to articulate the party around his policies and ideas?

My feeling, Andrew, is I don't know.

I mean, if

if we abide by our legislative, not constitutional requirements for an election, I mean, we're, what, three and a half years out.

So what I'm hearing from you, Andrew, is the sense that all these three protagonists, Mark Carney, Pierre Polyev, Avi Lewis,