Canadian politics and trade collided this week in ways that cut across the usual lines. India is growing at four to five percent annually, needs energy, and was burning coal before it moved to oil. It is now moving to natural gas. Canada just came back from India with a deal, and Andrew Caddell's framing is direct: in the next fifty years India is going to be a superpower and it is good to be on the right side of that now.

Poilievre told a business audience Trump is wrong and Canada is in good shape. Caddell gives him credit and identifies the bind immediately: poll numbers dropping because he reads as the Canadian Trump, and his own base wants exactly that. Carney's response to eleven years of Liberal attacks was to say he just got here, and the advisor class backing him up is genuinely different from Trudeau's, enough that Caddell describes it as essentially a new government. The NDP is not a factor. AB Lewis is likely the new leader and Caddell calls the party a dead man walking.

Brady Tkachuk's backtracking on the White House visit is now PR-scripted. Caddell says the players laughed at the close the Northern border comment and do not get a pass.

Topics: Canada India LNG deal, Poilievre Canadian Trump polls, Carney new government, NDP leadership AB Lewis, hockey White House reaction

GUEST: Andrew Caddell

Originally aired on 2026-02-27

Canadian politics and trade collided this week in ways that cut across the usual lines. India is growing at four to five percent annually, needs energy, and was burning coal before it moved to oil. It is now moving to natural gas. Canada just came back from India with a deal, and Andrew Caddell's framing is direct: in the next fifty years India is going to be a superpower and it is good to be on the right side of that now.
Poilievre told a business audience Trump is wrong and Canada is in good shape. Caddell gives him credit and identifies the bind immediately: poll numbers dropping because he reads as the Canadian Trump, and his own base wants exactly that. Carney's response to eleven years of Liberal attacks was to say he just got here, and the advisor class backing him up is genuinely different from Trudeau's, enough that Caddell describes it as essentially a new government. The NDP is not a factor. AB Lewis is likely the new leader and Caddell calls the party a dead man walking.
Brady Tkachuk's backtracking on the White House visit is now PR-scripted. Caddell says the players laughed at the close the Northern border comment and do not get a pass.
Topics: Canada India LNG deal, Poilievre Canadian Trump polls, Carney new government, NDP leadership AB Lewis, hockey White House reaction
GUEST: Andrew Caddell
Originally aired on&nbsp;2026-02-27

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