The election of Trudeau’s successor

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00:00The almost exact opposite seemed to have happened in your home country, in Canada.

00:06What did you make of this apparent dramatic turnaround of the fortunes of the Liberal Party,

00:12reportedly as a direct reaction to the rhetoric of Donald Trump?

00:17Well, what an amazing question. Thank you for that.

00:20I think if I can tie it back to an earlier segment that we were chatting,

00:25where I said it is so difficult to get people to change their opinion,

00:30Canadians perfectly exemplify that, right?

00:34So they had one mandate under Justin Trudeau, and most people complained that it was disastrous.

00:41So then they went to the ballot box and said, hey, let's vote for Justin Trudeau a second time.

00:46And then when that happened, they said, here's a great idea.

00:48Let's put him back in power for a third time.

00:52And when that ended, let's bring the next guy who is just Justin Trudeau

00:57in what appears to be a slightly less woke skin.

01:01And so I was baffled by it, but perhaps not surprised in that,

01:07and not to be critical of Pierre Poilievre,

01:10I think that he didn't do all that he could have done,

01:15which resulted in him losing.

01:18I can't remember what the exact numbers were.

01:19I think he was ahead by 30 points or whatever it was,

01:22some insurmountable lead, and then he lost it.

01:25It speaks precisely to our earlier point.

01:28Once people commit to a particular course of action,

01:32it's difficult to dislodge him.

01:33And I...