Yes, I appear on the U.S. media quite a bit, and I often feel uncomfortable with the idea that I'm saying things that make Canada look not so good, because we tend to do quite a bit of virtue signalling and not so much action.
One area that's of particular concern to me is the Indo-Pacific strategy, which is so poorly funded that we really can't, in any way, match up to Australia, the U.K. and the U.S. That's why we're not part of the AUKUS, and that's why we're not part of the Quad. However, we talk a very good line.
I think this rhetoric is really wearing thin in the United States. They're on to us, and they don't see us as a reliable ally, when we say one thing about decoupling and friendshoring—Mr. Champagne and Minister Freeland—in the United States, and then, when we get back to Canada, we're not talking about that anymore. They know. They're on to us, and it's not good for our overall relations with the United States and for getting those concessions we need to potential measures if the Trump administration comes in, like generalized 10% tariffs.