Reporter's Notebook - Raj and Russo on Canada/Us and Much More
6/2/202648 min
Althia Raj and Rob Russo share what they're hearing on everything from Dominic LeBlanc's visit to Washington and what it says about Canada's latest stance on the relationship with the United States to what's happening inside the Liberal caucus and more.
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First 90 secondsPeter Mansbridge· Host0:00
Are you ready for a little Raj-Russo? It's coming right up. [upbeat music] And hello there, Peter Mansbridge here, along with, uh, Althia Raj of the Toronto Star, Rob Russo of The Economist. They're both with us for their, uh, every two weeks conversation about things that have been going on, uh, in the national political scene. Uh, I wanna start with the fact that, uh, Dominic LeBlanc is on his way to Washington again today. It's a quick trip. I think he's sort of in in the morning, out in the afternoon or evening. Um, he's been going to Washington so many times in the last year and a half that, uh, it's said the flight crews call him by his first name now. I'm sure that's- [laughs] ... that's not the case, but nevertheless, he has made a lot of trips. The official CUSMA discussions, the Canada-US-Mexico trade agreement, haven't started yet, but there's a lot of preliminaries, and this is one of them. Um, but Rob, what e- give me a sense. W- what's actually being accomplished on all these trips? Is anything being accomplished? Has anything changed?
Rob Russo· Panelist1:16
Well, there haven't been a lot of them for a long time, and I think we're gonna find out, uh, this week whether this is motion or movement. I, I think we began to see, um, movement, and I think we began to see it last