Rudyard Griffiths

All of them, in a sense, could seem rather aligned in allowing this government to last for a greater length of time rather than a shorter length of time.

As you said, I think rightly, Pierre Polyev is in a precarious position.

Time is his friend.

Abby Lewis, for all the reasons you just discussed.

Mark Carney, obviously.

wouldn't like to enjoy the privileges and perks of a majority government and the power that that would give him over the next three plus years.

So if that is the de facto reality we're moving into, how does that maybe change our politics?

And maybe more importantly, how does that change the policies that we've seen out of the Mark Carney government to this point, where they've had to

I think if we want to be charitable, they've had a fairly thin legislative agenda from the election through to now.

It's hard to see the big kind of pillars that would be commensurate with some of the prime minister's rhetoric on Canada-US, on global rupture, on national unity.

Which, again, is their job.

So before people jump down the throat of the opposition for opposing or holding up parliament, this is literally...

Yeah, yeah.

Well said.

Let's talk about Mark Carney's

policy preferences.

Because up to this point, even in a minority, he's surprised, I think, members of his own party at times by pursuing policies that were either outright policies of the Conservative Party of Canada or policies that certainly were not in the frame and rubric of his predecessor, Justin Trudeau.

They were

small C conservative related to pipelines, law and order.

There's a long laundry list we can go through.