Good morning. Kevin O’Leary is getting top billing for his role in a forthcoming Timothée Chalamet movie directed by one of the Safdie brothers. Even in the year 2025, that isn’t a sentence I expected to type. We have more on that today – along with a look at Ontario’s ambitions of becoming a key ship-building centre.

Trade: Canada’s canola industry is asking Ottawa to limit imports of used vegetable oils to shore up domestic demand as it loses its most important market for seed exports.

Lending: The Bank of Canada’s governing council is divided on whether more rate relief may be needed to navigate the economic slowdown, according to a summary of last month’s meetings. Its next decision is on Sept. 17.

Moves: Mark Mulroney is joining CIBC as global vice-chair under its incoming CEO.

Air Canada: The union representing around 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants issued a strike notice after negotiations between the two sides reached an impasse.

• The airline issued a lockout notice and said it will begin cancelling flights today to allow an orderly shutdown.
• You can follow updates on the possible strike and what it could mean for your next Air Canada flight here.

Earnings: John Deere’s third-quarter report and investor call later this morning will bring into focus how the trade war is affecting farm and construction activity around the world.

• The company said in its last report that it might raise prices of its green machines to offset growing tariff losses.
• That report contains an epic list that reads like a Who’s Who of the world’s hottest economic risks.

‘Tiny tennis on tables? I’m out’

- Angel investors in the 1950s, probably

If you’ve watched the new trailer for Marty Supreme, the upcoming Timothée Chalamet feature about a table-tennis prodigy who “goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness,” you weren’t imagining things.

Receiving fourth billing in the preview, among a cast that includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Fran Drescher, Sandra Bernhard and Tyler, The Creator, is Kevin O’Leary. Yes, that Kevin O’Leary.

It was unclear from the 2-minute-long video – released yesterday by film studio A24 – how O’Leary’s character fits into the movie, but it would seem he does not believe in young Marty Mauser and his table-tennis dreams.

“I’m not trying to control you, Marty,” O’Leary’s character tells Chalamet’s Mauser in the trailer. “But I don’t think you understand the stakes. You have no power here.”

In that moment – and in a few other glimpses – O’Leary plays his character with the same dubious expression he usually reserves for crypto skeptics, Liberal politicians, or for Shark Tank, the reality show in which he and other investors routinely crush the dreams of would-be entrepreneurs.

Perhaps director Josh Safdie – one half of the celebrated filmmaking brothers whose work includes Uncut Gems – is gambling that the role of “skeptical businessman” isn’t a stretch for O’Leary.

And judging from the trailer alone, this skeptical businessman has every reason to be skeptical: Mauser wants to be the greatest table-tennis player in the world – but he needs help convincing people to play and/or watch table tennis. Together, these ambitions represent a tremendous opportunity for Gwyneth Paltrow. Or something. I’ll need to watch it again (again), but this fictional character needs to sharpen his pitch.

The film is scheduled to be released this Christmas. (In the meantime, will someone please check on Frank D’Angelo?)