Rockcliffe Park

So she is delivering Canada's speech at the UN General Assembly, not the prime minister.

But she's also this week coming back to Ottawa for a bit because the German foreign minister is going to pay a visit to our nation's capital and headline this German reception at the ambassador's residence in Rockcliffe Park.

And so Anita Anand is sort of carving out this space as somebody who's not signing the deals and she's not making the epic speeches that the prime minister loves to make, but she's doing a whole bunch of other work, racking up air miles, of course, but also welcoming people to Ottawa, like visiting foreign ministers who want to do more business or at least just deepen diplomatic ties with Canada.

Who are you watching?

Let's have a strategic partnership, including on security questions.

That's when it gets confusing because what if these two blocks go to war? One would assume that would mean that China would be bombing Ottawa, your, your house in Rockcliffe Park, Mark.

You know, I, it's [laughs]...

It doesn't make a lot of sense, but I suppose a defender of Mark Carney would say, "We're not really friends with China.

He's the former US ambassador to Canada during Joe Biden's term in office.

David Cohen, who notably held very popular July 4th parties at his Coronado residence in Rockcliffe Park, extremely popular parties.

It was, it used to be the hottest ticket in town to get.

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