Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Tensions between Canada and the United States are at an all-time high, yet it needn’t have ended up like that. If only the vice president and a pal from his fantasy football league had been in charge of the negotiations, it all might have been different. Plus, what are the takeaways from last night’s primaries (anything you want, probably), and is it time to make the Washington Commanders affordable again?

JD Vance was talking to a private audience in New York when he offered an intriguing detail on how trade talks with Canada went down.