After winning a contentious election, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has been busy over the last week visiting the White House and giving media interviews; he also made time to send Conrad Black a short thank-you note for writing “kind words” about him leading up to the vote.

While Black, the National Post founder and columnist, assured BNN in an interview Monday that he has remained critical of Trump, he may have been an anomaly as most pollsters and journalists confidently predicted Trump would lose.   

“I just didn’t drink the Kool-Aid on the other side,” Black said of foreseeing a Trump victory. “It just seemed to me there were plenty of reasons for discontent…I knew [Trump’s] appeal was stronger than the conventional wisdom accepted that it was.”

While Canadians have wondered what a Trump win could mean for U.S.-Canada relations, Black said Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are both “affable” and they will “get on very well.” Though when it comes to policy, “there a couple of areas that will have to be managed carefully,” he warned.

In terms of the North American Free-Trade Agreement, Black suggested that Canada won’t have much to worry about.

“I think that it’s clear that Donald Trump doesn’t have a problem with Canada,” he said. “When he attacks NAFTA, he’s not attacking Canada-U.S. free trade, which was of course a prior part of it. His concern isn’t hostility to Mexico. It’s the importation of unemployment into the U.S. on trade deals.”

“I don’t think there’s going to be a major-league problem on the trading relationship between this country and the new American government.”

Throughout his campaign, Trump said he would renegotiate NAFTA, threatening to bow out of the deal altogether in hopes of bringing back more manufacturing jobs to the U.S. David MacNaughton, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, said last week that Canada was “ready to come to the table” if the President-elect wants to discuss NAFTA.

The U.S. is Canada’s largest trading partner with $2.4 billion worth of goods and services traded between the two countries each day.