This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

It's a pleasure to go to my colleague, Conrad Black, writing for the National Post, a distinguished

biographer, to review the Canadian presentation at the Oval Office and what is to be done for

the new Premier, who continues as Premier, the central banker Mark Carney, now the Prime Minister

of our closest and dearest and happiest neighbor, Canada.

We begin with the presentation in the Oval Office.

Well done.

Not for sale. I agree. So we turn Oval Office. Well done. Not for sale.

I agree.

So we turn to what needs to be done.

Conrad, a very good evening to you.

During the campaign, there were questions, and I start with prosperity, growth, growing the GDP.

You have provided numbers.

I don't recall them immediately to show that while the U.S. grew over the

last X number of years, Canada didn't quite flatline, but has not kept up.

The conservative's position, I know for Mr. Potebra, was, let's go, let's go.

Is that still true?

And is Mr. Carney ready to greet the Canada with the growth in the GDP?

Good evening to you.

Yeah, good evening to you, John. Yes, I think we've got some hopeful signs here. First of all, as many of your listeners would have seen, the meeting between the Prime Minister

and President Trump did go very well from both the, you know, from the perspective of both

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