Guilbeault: Canadian taxpayers are going to be on the hook for tens of billions of dollars for yet another fossil fuel infrastructure, which we don't know whether or not it will be profitable in the long term.

Cullen: When you read the news release [Pembina] put out, they are interested in this 10% stake, but they make it clear there is a lot of caution. They're still evaluating the plan. Is it possible they could walk away, that this could become entirely a public project? Smith: Well, I hope not.

Smith: The demonstration that these projects work is the fact that we have TMX already being profitable just one year into its commission. Cullen: It was $34 billion. So it's going to take decades. I know you're making the point that you expect it to continue to be profitable well beyond that.

"After promising in the MOU that if a PL was to be built, it would have to be financed and operated by the private sector, we've learned that "Canada and Alberta will be equal partners..." Another project funded by taxpayers, even as oil companies are expected to earn $60B in profits this year."

"I'm not going to try to analyze Canadians anymore." Pete Hoekstra still can’t grasp why Canadians are upset with the United States.

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra defends 232 tariffs, saying they're "lawful, within the framework of the agreement."

Hoekstra on Trump saying the US doesn't need Canada: Need is one thing. We have needs for lots of things ... It's another thing to say that those needs have to be filled by a particular country -- that it has to be filled by Canada.

Hoekstra: You do not come into another country and run political ads against the president of the United States. That's not appropriate behaviour. Zandbergen: Is the president coming to Canada saying you could be the 51st state and you probably should -- that doesn't seem appropriate either.

Hoekstra on Doug Ford's ad: Foreign countries do not go into other countries and do political ads, advocating for certain candidates, especially during an election season. Canada decided to do that in the US. (Trump literally endorsed a candidate in Colombia's recent election)

Freeland: Ukraine right now has the strongest army in Europe. And when I talk to leaders of countries like the Baltic Republics, what they say is they have more faith that Ukraine will defend them in the event of a Russian attack than they do in NATO.

Freeland on Trump profiting off crypto while writing the regulations: That is one of the clear red lines between a rule of law democracy and an authoritarian kleptocracy ... what we're seeing in the United States right now is an absolutely blatant breaking of that rule.

Freeland: The reason that we are seeing these horrific war crimes, these Russian attacks on Ukrainian civilians, is Putin is getting scared because the Ukrainians right now are winning on the military battlefield.

Freeland: The biggest challenge right now in the United States and in the world is plutocracy versus democracy.

Freeland: I have to say, America has become a plutocracy much more quickly than I feared or imagined it would.

Haberman: If you want to look at a physical, tangible distinction between term two and term one, look around the Oval Office, look at all of the gold, look at how he has covered every single square inch with something, how focused he is on gilding it and how focused he is on leaving his own mark.

Swan: [Donald Trump] is playing now for history. He wants to be a sort of one-word figure of history in the way that we think of Napoleon. He was almost ecstatic about being in his company.

Haberman: Canada is not an exception. What is an exception right now with Canada is that Canada's current leadership has shown a fair amount of pushback to Trump. Mark Carney is one of the few people who has really aggressively pushed back.

Haberman: Many of these things with Trump start out as trolls and then they take on a life of their own. His team was, in fact, looking at whether Canadians would be interested in becoming absorbed by the U.S. His team made a fair amount of overt and less overt efforts into taking over Greenland.

Haberman: When Trump looks at a map of the world, he sees a sphere of influence. He sees the hemisphere, the U.S., he sees Canada, he sees Central America, he sees Greenland. And he looks at it, frankly, from the perspective of a conqueror. He sees land that he thinks should belong to his country.

Haberman: This version of Trump, this presidency is pretty close to unrecognizable from term one. He is operating on pure gut and with a very small group of advisors who want to see him succeed and who prize secrecy above all else.

Hoekstra: If Canada decides, "No, we'd rather ship that oil somewhere else and we don't want to ship it to the US," again, that's a decision that Canada can make. But America is not going to wait for that decision. We will go to other places in the world to look at where we can get that oil from.

Mamdani: As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more.

Mamdani: At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest.

Mamdani: The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal ... How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal.

Poilievre: I think the North Coast ban is ridiculous. American tankers travel through those same Pacific waters all the time. (they don't)

The Camrose Booster asking the hard questions. Pierre gives a vague, talking point-laden answer when asked what his constituents are most concerned about.

Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomes President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to Canada

Eby: This agreement doesn't require us to support any pipeline proposal from Alberta. However, as I've said before, we recognize our constitutional position. And we do not have the authority to stop a new pipeline.

Eby: I am very proud to say that through our discussions and negotiations with the federal government, we have secured a commitment to keep the northern tanker band firmly in place.

Eby: It's obviously a high-stakes time for Canada. The big game's coming up. This is a Prime Minister that is a tough negotiator and very persuasive. So do not be surprised if you see some Moroccan players crossing the field in advance of the game.

Carney: Today's Canada-BC agreement will maintain the federal North Coast tanker ban in accordance with the proposed route of a new trans-provincial pipeline under the bilateral agreement with Canada and Alberta.

Carney: Premier Eby and I are announcing a landmark Canada-BC cooperative prosperity agreement. This agreement is comprehensive, it's ambitious, and it will help transform the entire Canadian economy. So it's not just about one province and will help fund the public services on which Canadians rely.

Carney: British Columbia is the linchpin, the gateway to a more prosperous, more sustainable and a more inclusive Canada.

Aarti: Jamieson Greer said the US will meet with Mexico, and it's the third round of bilateral negotiations. No mention about upcoming talks with Canada. How do you read that? O'Toole: I read that as the US chose to go bilaterally with Mexico first. And the reports of those talks are not great

Joly: CUSMA is in place and the government has been at it working with the negotiating team, making sure that we can protect the interests of workers and businesses across the country. We've been ready for all scenarios ... My message to Canadians is we've got your back.

Volpe: The reason why [the US] want to make individual deals -- If they make changes to the agreement, they have to take those changes to the terms of the agreement back to Congress. And nobody in the White House wants to do that.

Volpe: Ottawa and Washington are still talking. And while Washington and Mexico are making a big show, real formal engagements and saying these are negotiating rounds, I can assure everybody here that Ottawa and Washington are formally talking. They're just not making a big show of it.

Ceolin: Are Canada-US trade talks as grim as some Canadians might think? O'Toole: Don't feel that it's grim, Canadians. I was there the first Trump administration. I was the Conservative critic. I find the approach we have [now] a lot more serious. But this really comes down to President Trump.

Erin O'Toole on negotiating a trade deal with the US: I really think in the case of Mr. Trump, it will be a president to prime minister engagement that the negotiators will then paper. And I think generally the government's doing a good job.

van Koeverden: Sports Illustrated listed Vancouver and Toronto first and third in terms of host cities. So let's keep that up.

van Koeverden: I played soccer yesterday with a lot of kids for Canada Day, and I asked them who their favourite players were. A year ago, most of them would have said Messi or Ronaldo, but all of them were saying Alphonso Davies, Jonathan David, Richie Laryea. That's what this tournament has done.

(Reuters) - Canada is aiming to co-announce around 10 founding nations for a global defence bank at next week's NATO summit in Turkey.

Canadian soft power having a moment right now

U.S. Senator for Vermont Peter Welch: President Trump’s anti-Canadian rhetoric and reckless tariffs have created economic chaos on both sides of the border. Economic chaos has been a hallmark of the last 18 months, and today’s announcement by the Trump Administration only adds fuel to the fire.

Volpe: The federal government isn't getting enough credit right now and doing a very solid job of keeping the lid on these potentially volatile negotiations with a president who doesn't like to be shown up in public.

Flavio Volpe on Canada's leverage: We're increasingly hearing even everybody's favourite ambassador, Pete Hoekstra, say there are things that the U.S. needs from Canada.

Volpe: There's a lot of talk in this country about, well, Mexico and the U.S. seem to be at the table and Canada isn't. There are very substantive issues between the U.S. and Mexico, including that the DOJ indicted the sitting governor of Sinaloa in Mexico. Here we're worried about car parts.

Flavio Volpe on US declining CUSMA extension: Yes, there was a press release yesterday, but in legal terms, nothing happened and the talks continue. I would actually have a lot more anxiety if I didn't know that the talks were substantive.

Miller: We've never been a loud nation. Well, actually we have, like during Sunday's goal by Stephen Eustáquio. That was loud. But let no one mistake our mild manner for weakness. We kneel for nobody.

Miller: Our determination is part of the history of Canada ... At the battles of Paardeberg and Vimy Ridge, our soldiers took the ground that no one else could, and our country came of age ... Through wars, crises and the harshest winters, one thing has never faltered: Canadian perseverance.