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Canada and the United States of America do a lot of business with each other. In 2024, the United States sold to the people of Canada about $350 billion in goods. That's a lot of goods, $350 billion. Canada sold Canadian goods to the United States in the amount of $412 billion. So there's what we call a trade deficit of $63 billion. And then you drill a little deeper and you realize that the U.S. economy is 10 times bigger than the Canadian economy. And the population of the United States of America is 8 times bigger than the population of Canada. Canada has 41 million people. America has 340 million. So you step back for a second and you go, huh? Now, the United States is 8 times bigger and our economy is 10 times larger than Canada's. But yet Canada is selling more of its goods into the United States than the United States is selling into Canada. Any fair-minded person would have to conclude, Mr. President, that it's because of tariffs. Because the Canadian tariffs on American goods are higher than the American tariffs on Canadian goods. And that's what the dispute is all about. President Trump, who believes passionately in the virtue of tariffs, thinks that the tariffs ought to be equal. That there shouldn't be a trade deficit. Now, trade is very complicated. And I don't think that all trade deficits are bad. I'm also not saying that all trade deficits are good. Trade in the complex global economy today is very complex. But I see the President's point. I'm not suggesting that I agree with the President on everything about tariffs. But when you've got your neighboring country and good friend is 8 times smaller than you are. And in terms of population, it's 10 times smaller than you are. And your neighbor is selling $63 billion more in goods to you than you're selling to them. That seems kind of unfair. And the President, as we all know, has made that point very vociferously. In response, the Canadian government, the new Prime Minister, Carney, he's pretty much bowed up. When President Trump said, well, the tariffs are uneven, so I'm going to raise them.