real and the horrible common place. joining us now is the author of that dire warning, thomas homer-dixon, canadian political scientist and executive director of the cascade institute at royal rhodes university. we ve been wanting to have this conversation for days. thank you so much for spending time with us. and we are so self-absorbed. we don t that s not really a partisan observation. it s just the fact of our nature. but tell me how canadians view america right now. we view america with enormous concern and worry as does much of the world, really. but also, i think, with anguish because we are friends of america. many of us have spent much of our lives in america. i spent many years in graduate school in the united states, and our associations, of course, are