Joe Parkinson
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146 appearances
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2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 8 Jul
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the European Union's never done before.
That's our colleague Joe Parkinson.
I mean, there has been talk for years of the idea of some kind of flexible membership, some kind of associate membership.
And it's been talked about for Ukraine, it was obviously talked about for the UK after Brexit.
And the fact is that the conditions now seem to be ripe enough, and Canada seems to be the candidate that's right enough that they can actually
for the first time do this.
So it is a big deal.
It's a historic moment, but there are a lot of things that can go wrong.
senior leaders in the West that are talking about these issues and sort of trying to think and design almost in real time what the West decoupled from America might look like.
some of the polling had him down more than twenty-five points in the lead up to the election, it looked like it was just a surefire that the conservatives were going to win and that Trump would have at least a kind of ideological ally across the border.
The 51st state comments completely transformed the Canadian political arithmetic.
I think there have been two sort of marquee moments, like one that had the whole world's attention and maybe one that was a little bit less noticed.
The first being, of course, the Davos speech.
Davos speech, the timing was it was happening right in the middle of the Greenland crisis.
Trump was due to speak the next day, and Kearney, of course, stood up and ended up giving what is still probably the clearest sort of mission statement of anti-Trumpism.
assumption is no longer valid.
Which was wildly popular in the West and came at a time where I think there were still a lot of top European and top Western leaders were on the fence a little bit about whether they wanted to continue to placate and accommodate Trump versus those who were saying that people needed to stand up to them a lot more.
And that was where, you know, Kearney managed to kind of articulate that moment.
got attacked.
Now I wasn't sure whether we were going to see either s you know, a kind of quite a conciliatory statement or a statement that didn't want to add more fuel to the fire.
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