On Thursday, our still-prime-minister-despite-a-resignation-announcement, Justin Trudeau, sat down across from CNN’s Jake Tapper to discuss his own definition of climate change, how helpful his texts with California Governor Gavin Newsom have been for their wildfires, and how his own “compassionate and selfless” leadership is modelled after the recently deceased President Jimmy Carter. Then, suddenly, despite Trudeau’s consistent claims against the existence of a Canadian national identity up until this point, Trudeau revealed to American Jake Tapper sitting across from him that Canada does, indeed, have a national identity — it’s anything America is not.