Yes, I think there always is.
Something that's been pretty obvious to me since I've been here is that the Canada-U.S. relationship is broad. There are literally millions of interactions between Canadians and Americans every day, from business to families to academics to—in other times—tourists. There's [Technical difficulty—Editor]. The ability of someone like me to do my job, or people like you to do your job as it relates to Canada-U.S. affairs, rests on the shoulders of those millions of interactions, because it's those interactions that create that sort of fibre and create the understanding of our two countries and the importance of one to the other.
Something that I think has been very interesting to me over the last couple of several weeks since this administration has come in—and I think you can see it if you look at that road map— is that in our discussions with the Americans we operate far less like we would operate with any other country. In other words, it's not fundamentally a discussion of foreign relations when we're talking to each other, because the things that really matter to us in our relationship with the Americans are much more domestic issues.
As we've been talking about today, they are issues like energy infrastructure; supply chains; borders; people wanting to move back and forth; aligning our climate policies and regulations; aligning our transportation regulations; and, making sure that when we're making large infrastructure spends, we're sharing them with each other. These are much more focused, and I haven't even gone into law enforcement. That's a whole other area where we and our law enforcement agencies work together every single day.
On our relationship, I think it was Condoleezza Rice, if I'm not mistaken, who said that in Canada and the U.S., we talk about condo issues. It's like we share a condo together, and the things we work on together have to do with the fact that we live in the same space. Most of the time, that's great, and sometimes it's not, when they don't shovel their walk or when they don't fix a leaky roof, or we don't. Sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's more challenging. It's a relationship of a very different nature than most relationships with foreign governments, and it's because of all of the people-to-people ties.