Althea Raj
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 16 Jun
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The prime minister has to walk a very fine line between telling Donald Trump that Canada has other options and we're not beholden to whatever strongman will he wants to impose on us, but at the same time also not annoy him to the point that he completely decides to rip the steel apart and walks away from the table.
So I think there's a little bit of both camps happening.
I thought what was interesting in his opening remarks at the European political community meeting that he was invited to by Macron from France was he said two things I thought were interesting.
One is what the Europeans want from us.
often in this country, we talk about energy.
He said, no, no, no.
We go there saying we will offer you energy, but what they really want is critical minerals.
So to Rob's point, the Europeans, if they do want to lead the world, have a lot of their own affairs to sort out continentally, notably on defense and security, especially if the Americans walk away.
And that is something that we can say, hey, we want to be a partnership with Europe.
The other thing I thought was interesting was he talked about some of the key themes from the Davos speech, one of which being we take the world as it is, not as we would wish it to be.
But in a way, he is wishing it to be something.
And perhaps for all the reasons that Rob outlined, all the challenges that Europe already itself faces, right?
you have a prime minister saying, you know, these, the ideals of freedom of democracy, rule of law, these are the human rights.
These are the things that we want to work on together.
These are the things that we share with you, you know, like please continue to work on these things so that we can be partners together.
Um, because at the moment, I don't know that you could really argue that Europe is fit to lead the world at the moment.
I don't know that it's helpful, but I guess it depends what you mean by dead in the water.
Like the government has made it clear that for the first time, actually, I think it was two weeks ago that there are no negotiations happening.
You know, we had our ambassador to the U.S.
say very plainly that, you know, we're open and willing to negotiate whenever they are willing to call us to the table.
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