Good Talk - What Should We Learn From The CBS "60 Minutes" Disaster?
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Are you ready for Good Talk?
And hello there, Peter Mansbridge here, along with Chantelle Hebert and Bruce Anderson. It's your regular Friday Good Talk. You know, last week, I don't know what came over me. It was something at the beginning of the show. For some reason, I didn't do the normal, are you ready for Good Talk? And I said something else, and I didn't think about it again. Until the letters started coming in. Now, I don't want to overstate things. But there were a few. Saying, you can't do this. The program starts. Are you ready for good talk? Clearly, both Bruce and Chantel looked... puzzled as to why that was not normal.
It was disappointing. It just got off the wrong foot.
Well, some of the writers were disappointed. Eric Ott, a guy from Winnipeg, who I don't know, but he sent a letter saying, my friends and I rely on that opening because some of us record it and send it to each other. Are you ready? And we ship the program around. So I thought, I better not do that again. We can't afford to lose anybody. And so that's why we're back to, are you ready? After a one-week absence. I bet you're both so happy to hear that. That feels right.
I can see it. We totally noticed we were off our game for 50 minutes after that. So not ready for that change. No consultation, as usual.
Yeah, I know. It was an ad-lib change. But you'll be happy to know that Eric, the now famous Eric Ott from Winnipeg, also joins the throng that says, Chantal is a national treasure.
Oh, give me a break. I always feel worried.
That's the way I wrote back to him. I said, give me a break. We're tired of this.
Yeah, good answer.
Okay. One of the many things that you two have taught me over the years is is to be cautious about assuming too much based on a very scant amount of information. So I'm being cautious, and I'm just going to throw this open to your interpretation of what, if anything, we should think about it. Trade talks were kind of back on this week, at least the pre-trade talks, the latest pre-trade talks. And the Prime Minister said yesterday that that there was some progress in these talks. What should we make of that, Bruce?
Well, look, I think that there's a discussion about when will the formal trade talks start, and it's quite natural, I think, that there's a lot of focus on, well, a Mexico conversation is starting, where's the Canadian conversation? But the implication sometimes in that kind of coverage of this issue is that absent those formal negotiations, there's really been no conversation between U.S. and Canadian officials, no work being done to isolate and try to find solutions to the irritants, which are relatively few in number and have been articulated by the prime minister and I think to some degree by the Americans as well. But I don't think that's been the case. I think there have been conversations, there have been interactions.
They don't look like the start of formal negotiations. So people quite logically say, well, when will those start? But I think when the prime minister says there's some progress being made and more work to do, he is sending a signal that he does want people to understand that it's not radio silence between the two countries. that the number of issues has been kind of isolated, identified, narrowed down, and that there's an effort being made to find common ground. In the past, he hasn't, he's been reluctant, I think, to send that kind of signal if there was no reason to feel that it was, that there was something going on on the part of Canadians. But I think that, so I do think it was meaningful, but I think he was careful also to say what we've all observed, which is,
You can't tell how the United States as an administration is going to approach this conversation with Canada because the formal rules of engagement have been ignored repeatedly, not just towards Canada, but towards lots of other countries. including with the imposition of some new tariffs just last week, which I guess don't apply to Canada, but which have something to do with the use of forced labor.
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