“Are Canadians offended by Trump?… Do you guys like us?”

Those were the two most heavily-loaded questions asked of Premier David Eby during his brief appearance on Fox News Wednesday morning.

It wasn’t just another TV interview. As Eby told reporters at a much lower-stakes news conference later at Ship Point, talking to Fox News is like talking directly to the president.

He spends hours a day gazing at the dominant right-wing news channel, reacting to news and sometimes creating it on the spot, so the interview was a chance for a comparatively obscure Canadian politician to possibly whisper right in his ear.

Eby kept his elbows down for most of the segment and showed a lot of restraint in his answers.

Maybe his morning yoga routine helped. Maybe there was an anger management consultant off-camera.

He has been raging for months about how stupid, ill-considered and unwarranted Trump’s tariff war and sustained attack on Canadian sovereignty is.

“I’m pissed off,” Eby said in March.

And later: “It’s hard to imagine … where our closest friend and ally turned........

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