Will Carney get another Trump bump?

But I guess we got to start with the big orange news from the south of the border and what impact it's going to have here.

So by the time you're listening to this, I'm sure you've heard everybody break down everything that happened in the trade negotiations with the United States already.

So I'm not going to review that, if you don't mind.

But I think that what we can talk about and we can delve into here is what impact it's going to have And also what impact it has already had on public opinion.

We haven't had a lot of polls as we're discussing about this just yet.

Now, the negotiations, the Canadians walked out, I think it was on Friday or Friday night or something.

Friday night, 11.30 p.m. Yeah.

So that's not a lot of time for pollsters to get into the field.

But the Angus Reid Institute did get in the field on the weekend, and they showed pretty strongly what I think that we would have already guessed, but that Canadians are a bit in a fighting mood, pretty fed up with the United States and Donald Trump.

And I think very clearly the decision that Mark Carney made is the one that Canadians were maybe hoping he would make.

Well, here's the thing.

Just before we get into that Angerstreet poll, and I think it was a big one and we'll delve into the numbers, but there was a Leger poll just prior to the talks breaking down between Canada and the United States that really showed that Canadians were, Canadian voters generally and from coast to coast, were pretty sick of concessions that the Canadian government was ready to make for the US.

And those numbers suggested to me that had the Canadian negotiators like, bow down or kneel down or whatever the expression you want to use, but decided to, you know, decide to flinch and let the U.S. walk all over them, it would not have been good for anybody, including themselves politically.

Like, a lot of Canadians were ready to go with the hard line against the U.S. Now, the talks broke down, and as you said, the English Reinstitute polled on this, and we see a vast majority of respondents backing Mark Carney's decision to pull out of the...

Obviously, we do not know all the details, nor will we, because usually those negotiations, there's a lot of verbal agreements and arguments.

But there was no other choice for Carney, considering the numbers and the public opinion.

There was no other choice for him to walk out of this awful, awful deal that the U.S. wanted to basically colonize Canada.

What's your take on the numbers, Eric?

Yeah, it's more of a puzzle why they were even considering signing and finalizing a deal.

Because Canadians have very low trust in Donald Trump.

They have no expectation that any deal that would be signed would be honored or wouldn't be broken.

And apparently that was one of the final sticking points that Canadians couldn't get an assurance that you know what, a day after signing the agreement, we wouldn't be slapped with new tariffs.

So when you see the numbers from the Angus Regent Institute, and we'll go through some of the big ones, it shows how, in a way, Mark Kearney has gotten himself back in line with where public opinion was.

If he had signed a deal, I think he would have been out of step, even if he was able to sell that it was a better deal than having no deal.

This is the biggest number.

But I guess we got to start with the big orange news from the south of the border and what impact it's going to have here.

So by the time you're listening to this, I'm sure you've heard everybody break down everything that happened in the trade negotiations with the United States already.

So I'm not going to review that, if you don't mind.

But I think that what we can talk about and we can delve into here is what impact it's going to have And also what impact it has already had on public opinion.

We haven't had a lot of polls as we're discussing about this just yet.

Now, the negotiations, the Canadians walked out, I think it was on Friday or Friday night or something.

Friday night, 11.30 p.m. Yeah.

So that's not a lot of time for pollsters to get into the field.

But the Angus Reid Institute did get in the field on the weekend, and they showed pretty strongly what I think that we would have already guessed, but that Canadians are a bit in a fighting mood, pretty fed up with the United States and Donald Trump.

And I think very clearly the decision that Mark Carney made is the one that Canadians were maybe hoping he would make.

Well, here's the thing.

Just before we get into that Angerstreet poll, and I think it was a big one and we'll delve into the numbers, but there was a Leger poll just prior to the talks breaking down between Canada and the United States that really showed that Canadians were, Canadian voters generally and from coast to coast, were pretty sick of concessions that the Canadian government was ready to make for the US.

And those numbers suggested to me that had the Canadian negotiators like, bow down or kneel down or whatever the expression you want to use, but decided to, you know, decide to flinch and let the U.S. walk all over them, it would not have been good for anybody, including themselves politically.

Like, a lot of Canadians were ready to go with the hard line against the U.S. Now, the talks broke down, and as you said, the English Reinstitute polled on this, and we see a vast majority of respondents backing Mark Carney's decision to pull out of the...

Obviously, we do not know all the details, nor will we, because usually those negotiations, there's a lot of verbal agreements and arguments.

But there was no other choice for Carney, considering the numbers and the public opinion.

There was no other choice for him to walk out of this awful, awful deal that the U.S. wanted to basically colonize Canada.

What's your take on the numbers, Eric?

Yeah, it's more of a puzzle why they were even considering signing and finalizing a deal.

Because Canadians have very low trust in Donald Trump.

They have no expectation that any deal that would be signed would be honored or wouldn't be broken.

And apparently that was one of the final sticking points that Canadians couldn't get an assurance that you know what, a day after signing the agreement, we wouldn't be slapped with new tariffs.

So when you see the numbers from the Angus Regent Institute, and we'll go through some of the big ones, it shows how, in a way, Mark Kearney has gotten himself back in line with where public opinion was.

If he had signed a deal, I think he would have been out of step, even if he was able to sell that it was a better deal than having no deal.

This is the biggest number.