Joe Parkinson
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207 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
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And actually Carney was the one who came out and he called it a trade war.
We need to be on a war footing and we need to deal with this.
And it's those moments where he's actually decided to escalate as a technocrat and as a centrist, which maybe you think is maybe a little bit of a different reflex from what you would expect, that have kind of marked him out to be seen as a leader for good and for bad of this kind of Western Allied movement that's standing up to Trump.
England.
Kearney knows a lot of these guys from his past.
He was a banker, Emmanuel Macron, he was a banker at Rothschild.
Friedrich Merz, the German Chancellor, you know, worked for BlackRock.
Obviously he knows the political elite in the UK very well.
Finland's president, who's become a great friend and a fellow sort of architect of what these new European institutions are going to look like, President Alex Stubb.
He also, you know, worked in finance and Kearney knew him.
So he just happened to have this network that he's been able to use and really move to the forefront of kind of global policy making.
Yeah, the last thing we need is the book club coming after us, isn't it?
No, this was one of the definitely one of the more surprising um little nuggets that came out of the reporting of this was that there's a group of kind of political big beasts and captains of industry who are members of this one book club in Ottawa.
And some of the individuals who are in the book club are still very close to the prime minister.
And although he hasn't had any time, he says, to partake in the monthly readings since he became Prime Minister, uh, he's still very much in touch with these guys and they form a part of this kind of uh advisory world that he has.
ideas.
To be fair, the people that we were talking to were far more secretive about book club than they were about Canada's plans for joining the European Union.
This book
Canada is the shiny new bauble in the EU right now.
I think there are so many reasons to be pessimistic and concerned about the future when you're sat in Europe.
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