Burritt: Remind us, what have been the sticking points on this bridge so far?
Cochrane: Well, you've heard of Donald Trump. That administration has been a bit of a sticking point for Canada for quite some time right now.
Rabson: Conservatives want to attack PM Carney and the Liberals for not being able to manage the economy. They wanted everyone to start using the "recession" word.
Cochrane: You have to ignore all the global news to believe that so many of the problems are purely domestic in their creation.
Bellavance: "This is going to be the summer of discontent for the Conservative Party, which may lead to people calling openly for the departure of Mr. Poilievre."
Cochrane: There has been this outburst of conservative on conservative fighting this week ... Now people are writing op-eds in papers like the National Post. What do you make of this?
Duncan: Affordability, affordability, affordability.
Cochrane: "This week when they announced the subs, your party put out a statement calling it a fake announcement. So everything is meaningless and everything is fake ... If you bid on a house and your bid is accepted, there's still work to do before it's finalized. But it's real. It's not fake."
Herle: "I was furious with the CBC last week for interviewing [Pete Hoekstra] because it poisoned my feed for days with the shit that he said."
(sorry, David)
Kory Teneycke on Pete Hoekstra: "He's the ambassador of gaslighting ... We've normally had an amazing group of talented people who have been ambassadors from the US. Now we have a guy who is a walking embarrassment, but at the same time, completely emblematic of this administration."
"How does a name like that get on the goddamn list? It's a choice. It's literally saying FU. It's Trump apologists and convoy conservatives and whatever."
Scott Reid and David Herle blast Pete Hoekstra for putting Tamara Lich on the guest list for his Fourth of July party.
Jordan Leichnitz on Danielle Smith always moving the goalposts: "She got the MOU. She now has a path forward on the pipeline that requires really no private sector involvement. OK, so now it's about plastics. It's about pesticides. It's never enough."
"It's a lot of sneering and nitpicking ... Carney looks like the guy who's a business guy and gets things done. And Poilievre looks like a guy who's unemployable except being an opposition leader."
Curse of Politics on the Conservative response to the Alberta pipeline announcement.
"The government's going to bear that risk through all of this -- and then the private sector will come in and say, 'Well, now since you guys have borne all those bruises...'"
Scott Reid on the private sector shying away from risk in the Alberta pipeline deal.
Freeland: "What has changed over the past six months as the Ukrainians have started striking inside Russia is people in Moscow, in St. Petersburg, affluent middle-class Russians, for the first time are starting to recognize that they are living in a country at war."
Chrystia Freeland on the Iran war: "This poorly planned, ill-conceived war waged without allies isn't working. What it is actually doing is revealing American weakness in a way that is harmful to the United States and to all of its allies."
Chrystia Freeland on Trump's behaviour at NATO: "I think actually that he needs to be called out much more ... The comments with regard to Spain were also utterly unacceptable ... Trying to appease President Trump just encourages him. What he understands is strength."
Freeland: "Denmark and other countries like Sweden have been really, really smart in recognizing that the future of war is being invented in Ukraine. Partnering with Ukraine on the production of weapons is going to be one of the keys to Europe making itself safe."
