Being charitable… I’m not sure this is the best messaging he can go with. He doesn’t seem to realize it’s over. Most of us are finished with the US and we can’t trust them at this point. He needs to start standing up for Canada and presenting a message of strength, independence and unity… Not continuing to offer platitudes and extending olive branches. Frankly, it looks weak, and it doesn’t instill any trust that he will do what’s necessary when the time comes.
He finishes off with a show of strength that hits all the right notes, but when it comes after the weaselly opening it just seems like too little, too late.
FWIW, this is the first I’ve heard of him actually sounding even remotely like a leader rather than a yappy anti-Trudeau dog.
Sounds like he has been trying really hard to pivot his message, knowing that his polling numbers are heading in the wrong direction for him. The main issue is that his past chummy American statements are going to catch up to him, and he has to either side with Maple MAGA or with Canada, he can’t have both anymore.
My crystal ball forsees him at the debate repeating one rehearsed line over and over.