Do you think that we're becoming more polarized

in Canada right now? Yeah, you know, I've been kind of trying to follow the scholarship on this, and there is some evidence that we are going in that direction.

There's research on political polarization that actually says we are not more polarized than before, and we can see a little bit of you know, the Liberals in power in Canada, but grabbing seats from the Conservatives and the NDP.

So there's actually some evidence that says we are more fluid in a political sense in the country.

But I think we can feel it at the level of organizations, communities, families, that there is a sense of people being very attached to how they think about themselves and each other.

And so I think culturally, it is probably true that we are quite polarized.

And I think, you know, in a way, I have been in a lot of conversations about, is this more polarized than we were before? In a way, I feel like it doesn't really matter.

How then do you navigate those conversations when it's someone you're going to have to see again? Yes.