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I'm Charlie Sykes.

Welcome to a new episode of To the Contrary podcast. We survived the first 100 days of the Trump presidency. And I'm really pleased to be joined once again by my good friend Nicholas Grossman, who is the editor of ArcDigital and a professor of political science at the University of Illinois. Welcome back, Nicholas. Thanks. Happy to be with you.

Well, look, I want to talk about, I know that you focus a lot on international relations.

I want to talk about Ukraine. I want to talk about the terror fight. But can we just start off with the elections in Canada a couple of days ago? because that was truly extraordinary, wasn't it?

The liberal party was absolutely dead, written off, buried, resurrected by Donald Trump, in effect.

So Donald Trump has managed to completely tank the conservatives hopes.

I mean, the conservatives were basically almost assured of winning that election in Canada a few months ago.

And they lost.

So talk to me about that because I'm trying to think the last time that an American politician or president had that kind of an influence on Canadian politics, if ever.

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