THE LATEST | CANADANational Post: Q: Reflecting on your tenure, what was the toughest file you managed, and what key lesson from it would you pass to your successor?
A: Golly, there’s more than one. I’m going to say there’s definitely more than one challenging file. I think right now it is challenging to be faced with a situation where some of the fundamentals of the benefits of Canada-U.S. economic integration — supply chain integration and the mutual benefits that we and our companies, in particular, have developed over years and years of working together — are more up for debate than ever. That is very challenging.
And it’s very challenging because it feels like we’ve had to learn how to articulate something that just seemed like a no-brainer to us for a very long time. So that’s been very challenging. And the volatility that has been part of this shift has been very challenging at a very personal level…