John Manley "Well, you know, I put the, put the shoes on the other foot and would ask how we would feel if, let's say the governor of California was running ads in Canada denouncing us for doing whatever."
"I think we'd find it an egregious interference in our domestic affairs and we'd be probably pretty upset about it."
"So from that point of view, I'd say yeah, it was probably not a good idea to stick our noses into that."
"It's, it's clearly an attempt to undermine political support for what the president believes he should be doing."
"We may think he's wrong or wrong headed about it, but probably we should keep our arguments, you know, to the negotiating table and not be going over the heads of the government to, to try to persuade them, the people themselves."