Is this just Donald Trump being Donald Trump, Ashley. Oh, I think this was very on purpose. I
mean, I think he's getting under his skin. Obviously, everyone remembers they do not have
a lot of love loss between the two of them, obviously, because Trudeau's on life
support, so to speak right now, obviously, by probably by the end of 2025 he will no longer
be Prime Minister of Canada. And so he's doing everything he can to make amends with
obviously, or try to work with President Trump . I mean, I just think if you see what's
happening in the energy space in regards to what they, what the President wants to do,
President elect wants to do in regards to whether it's the keystone pipeline, whether
it's energy independence for North America. I mean, you have to have a government there
that's going to be able to work and they're more conservative than we are in regards. I
don't know if conservative is the right word, but they're more restrictive on permitting and
things like that in Canada than they are in the United States. So I think there's going to
be a lot of leadership change in Canada where you'll have um a lot more flexibility within
the next year. Well, there are reasons to discuss permitting today, but before we get
there, just on this truth post about Trudeau in particular, is this not commonplace strategy
we see from Donald Trump because there are things he wants to be able to get Canada to do
when it comes to the flow of both people and drugs over the northern border. It's why he
threatened tariffs, but diminishing the opponent if you will, is also part of the
playbook 1000%. And I think the fact that we're talking about a second term, you can even
see in the response from, you know, any of the officials. I think that we've heard commentary
from is, you know, playing that fine line of being able to quote unquote, you know, take the
joke but also not be a pushover. And I think they'll find their pockets of being able to,
you know, say what they truly feel or truly mean while also smiling and shaking the hand
and taking the picture at the same time. And I think that's kind of the strategy that you have
to employ to both, you know, not set President Trump off, but also still be able to, you know,
make some progress on whatever the particular. So I think we'll see a lot of smiling and head
nodding and, you know, kind of the real work happening after the picture is taken. Well, I'm
glad that you brought that up because when we spent time with the ambassador, she talked
about how much fun it was to be on the patio at Mar a lago. The kids were running around.
She said everyone was dressed up. She said Donald Trump walked into their car, shook hands.
They had hugs. Is this just the way foreign leaders need to prepare to interface with this
president elect? Yes. And I think, you know, everyone always underestimates Donald Trump or
used to at least, but I think he's, you know, he's crazy like a fox. He knows exactly what
he's doing. He knows that Trudeau is in the place of weakness right now. But you also have
this independence recently over the last couple of years that the provinces have their
own power over some of their natural resources . So you have someone like the premier in
Alberta who's very forward thinking, so to speak, that she has pretty much been very
pro us trying to make sure that her borders are closed in regards to Alberta, really pro
energy working with a lot of our governors in many states. And so, you know, Daniel Smith is
probably the future of Canada and Trudeau is probably the past, in my opinion. So as you
talk about energy and raised permitting earlier, I do want to ask you about the true
post, another one from Donald Trump today, anyone or any company investing a billion
dollars in the US essentially to summarize his words. It's a fast track permitting process,
waive those environmental regulations as well. Let's rock or get ready to rock. Ashley. Yes.
So I was that, I had lots of thoughts that went through my mind. There's very few states
and North Dakota is actually want. And so governor, the interior secretary, new interior
secretary, the energies are where they actually have more control than the federal
government of their permitting system. Most states one have their own permitting system. So
if you're, if you're a Democrat in Pennsylvania, for example, is Josh Shapiro just
going to roll over to all of the permitting that he's talking about. Obviously, there's
other parts of the permitting that are federally run that he President Trump will have
control over in regards to EPA and others. But it's a little difficult and there's probably
going to be a lot of lawsuits I would say, but it's, you know, prepare the lawyer. Are you
ready for the rock n roll album? That's really the question. We're going to have lots of talk
about the next years, be rocking. But so what are we talking about here? This is drill, baby
drill. What about nimby? I thought that we lived in this Nimby nation. My whole question
is like, what does investing mean in December of 2024? Like what actually is? Right?
So I, I think it just opens up the floodgates for a whole lot of, you know, obviously fodder
here at the, at the desk. But also I think, you know, there will for sure be some
approaches with, um, a billion or billions of dollars to see, you know, what, uh you know,
loopholes we can or doors we can have open uh, for some of these to pass through. I uh just
get your popcorn ready is what I would say.