To your mind, how is the federal government doing in terms of striking that balance?

Well, my opinion counts for one vote.

What I see is that as far as public opinion is concerned, he's doing very well indeed.

He's moving from strength to strength in terms of public support for the Liberal Party nationally.

Obviously never close to unanimous, but it's been a long time since a prime minister has been this popular.

And the international press coverage of Carney's adventures is pretty close to rapturous.

As a practical matter, there's still a lot to be unpacked from these declarations of the past week.

Add those two ingredients into the conversation and what the prime minister needs to do.

But It's become too much of a one-man show, especially since we sort of point to the White House and say, look, it's just Donald Trump doing what Donald Trump wants to do.

It's more of a one-man show than I would like.

And I get the impression that they're sort of aware of this in the prime minister's office.

So that on Tuesday, it was Patty Hajdu and Francois-Philippe Champagne and Melanie Jolie who announced the support for workers while Carney publicly took a day off, although we're already hearing that he's working even though he has no public events.

share the burden.

And some of these cabinet ministers have certain talents.

It's wise of them to show these people off a little bit when they can.

But as you say, is that maybe more of a sideshow or distraction or how much is there?

Paul, what do you think about the Wall Street Journal

thing? I hadn't read it for a bit because I was traveling, and then I read it a few days ago, and...

It's actually a remarkable effort in rewriting what was already largely public.

I've had this experience when I write books about relatively recent events.

Stuff can be very recent and still feel like history in the sense that everyone's forgotten it happened.

The talk with Trump about the Boundary Waters Treaty, that 1908 treaty that he was going to use to beat us like a stick, that was previously reported by the Toronto Star and it had been reported before when the Star had it.

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Talked about how he watched our prime minister's speech yesterday.

So I disagree with Trump that Canada is essentially a horrible place that is being propped up by American largesse.

But first of all, I know he's not the only American to think that.

That's been a common theme of particularly conservative Canadian thought towards Canada for many years.

It's not without reason.

It's part of truth, but it's also kind of inherent to Trump, which is that he believes that he's surrounded by ingrates and that it's only his genius that is keeping the world turning.

And that Canada is only one manifestation of that.

How are you thinking about the standing ovation that he got at the end of the speech in Davos? Why do you think he got it?

Yeah, we want to get your take on this burgeoning NDP, federal NDP race and your thoughts on who's in the race, what they're what they're pushing for, their vision for sort of in their minds, hopefully an evolved NDP, one that appeals to more people than it did in the last election.

Uh, I think it's turning out to be an interesting, um, field of candidates.

Uh, you've got a guy like Gaby Lewis, who is, has an awful lot of broadcast and writing experience and has, uh, a lot of, um, people behind him who have a history sort of making trouble in the NDP.

Uh, they, they, uh, helped to crystallize the opposition to, uh, Tom Mulcair at the 27 campaign and, And then there's Heather McPherson, who's got real experience in the caucus and comes from Alberta and is trying to be a bridge builder.

And this guy, Rob Ashton, is a longshoreman.

Everyone else claims to be for the working class.

He has been leading one of the country's most important unions for nearly a decade.

But I have to assume, Paul, behind closed doors, when the leadership of the party is Uh, yeah.