Give taken a particular interest. You go there lots a what draws you up there . A couple of things. Canada as in northern nation. That is what, one of the things that makes us distinct from the United States. Whereas in canada, the United States, you say go west to find your identity. In this country, it has always been go north. That is the part of the country that defines our identity and has so much promise in terms of its abundant resources. I do want to say this one of the things we tried to do as a government, with some success, is we come to office with two views but too often in the past, were seeing. One is that this government is extremely proamerican. The valiant the relationship with the United States. We could not be in a better situation than to have the United States as our only real labor, closest economic partner and oldham of the allied. And ally. At the same time, were Strong Canadian nationalists and think in our own modest way. We see no incompatibility with that.
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Avoid a strike come monday morning. We have live team coverage. Debra deleone has been monitoring and joins us from oakland with the latest. Heather, no breakthroughs, but a much better tone. And they are still packing. Its been 12 hours. A longer day than they usually put in. Reporters eager for an any crumb of news are bound to see the arrival of food, lots of it as a positive sign the two sides in the bart talks are digging in on big issues. Will be taking a working dinner break. Thats all i have. Is there anything different . Anything better . Everything every day is something different. It has been a strident week for both sides. Workers giving their strike notice and marching. And barts boss press her case for new trains, not higher salaries. Not just about the Service Today but in the service in the future, in the next 100 years. Riders are worried about the day to tomorrow. The misery of the shutdown still fresh. This is one of the needles. And bart janitors, talking about thei
Monitoring and joins us from oakland with the latest. Heather, no breakthroughs, but a much better tone. And they are still packing. Its been 12 hours. A longer day than they usually put in. Reporters eager for an any crumb of news are bound to see the arrival of food, lots of it as a positive sign the two sides in the bart talks are digging in on big issues. Will be taking a working dinner break. Thats all i have. Is there anything different . Anything better . Everything every day is something different. It has been a strident week for both sides. Workers giving their strike notice and marching. And barts boss press her case for new trains, not higher salaries. Not just about the Service Today but in the service in the future, in the next 100 years. Riders are worried about the day to tomorrow. The misery of the shutdown still fresh. This is one of the needles. And bart janitors, talking about their job. Clean up needles, urine in the elevator. We come out to try to keep it clean eve
Really feel. Reporter gathering of the Union Workers shouted at the negotiator to go home. He was leading to take proposals for decisions. We have had so many fans here. Reporter the shouting continues for two city blocks as he makes his way to the car. The outburst includes powerful meetings that have been a day of subjective cooperation and progress. Beginning with a cancellation of a news progress earlier this afternoon. Good afternoon. We apologize for the inconvenience, but there will not be a press conference at 1 30. The parties are diligently working to get a contract. Okay . Thank you. The whole bay area should have that here. He is stalling the negotiations completely. So it looks like he caused that first strike and it looks like, you know, unless something changes significantly, its where it will be again. Reporter they didnt plan to ask for a cooling off period, but they are suggesting that it might be what will stand between them and the strike as they will be explaning t