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Get our FREE Newsletter at https://www.PrometheanAction.com — Susan Kokinda opens with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney celebrating Brazil's election, von der Leyen's partnership "thriving" and Carney's "flourishing", set against Volkswagen's plan to cut 100,000 jobs, Canada's lost manufacturing jobs, and Audi's first U.S. plant, announced with President Trump in Perry, Georgia, with Rep. Rich McCormick on what it means for Georgia and a look at GDP growth in the United States, the euro area and Canada. The episode then turns to the U.S. Embassy in Canada's October 21 fact sheet on Canadian activities in U.S. politics: Carney's and Minister Mélanie Joly's denials, Joly on meeting "so many governors and potential presidential candidates", tariffs aimed at "political pressure", and the anti-tariff billboards. It sets that beside Chatham House's August 27 paper for Prime Minister Andy Burnham's government, which urges London to court members of Congress, state legislatures, potential presidential candidates and industry leaders, and looks at the British pedigree of Canada's trade team and Chatham House director Bronwen Maddox on the members of Congress who came through Chatham House. It closes with the voters: the Parti Québécois win in Quebec and the Conservative majority in British Columbia that President Trump congratulated, the AfD's wins in two German states, and the President's "France: Now and Then".
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00:00 The Midweek Update - London's Plan to Bypass Your Vote — And Why It's Already Failing - October 28, 2026
02:17 Thriving and Jiving
04:58 The Real Plan
09:28 The Voters Are Figuring It Out
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Photos (public domain unless noted)
- Prime Minister Mark Carney, May 6, 2025: Official White House Photo
- Mélanie Joly, January 29, 2025: U.S. Department of State
- Hamilton, Ontario, the harbour and its steel mills, June 2007: Rick Cordeiro
- Anti-tariff billboard, Kennedy Township, Pennsylvania, March 25, 2025: Gene J. Puskar / AP
- Janice Charette, November 2, 2017: International Maritime Organization, CC BY 2.0
- Dominic LeBlanc, July 11, 2024: U.S. Department of Homeland Security / Tia Dufour
- King Charles III and President Trump, Windsor, September 17, 2025: The White House
- David Eby after his concession speech, Vancouver, October 24, 2026: Jimmy Jeong / Bloomberg
- Map of Canada: Natural Earth
Video
- President Trump and Audi CEO Gernot Döllner, Perry, Georgia, October 24, 2026: pool feed via Roll Call Factbase; Reuters
- Bronwen Maddox, Independent Thinking podcast, October 16, 2026: Chatham House
- Prime Minister Andy Burnham clapped in to 10 Downing Street, July 20, 2026: Prime Minister's Office (Open Government Licence v3.0)
- AfD election night, Saxony-Anhalt, September 6, 2026: AFP
- Paris, October 17, 2026: AFP
- "France: Now and Then": President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, October 27, 2026
Articles, posts and documents quoted: Ursula von der Leyen and Mark Carney on X (October 25, 2026); Rep. Rich McCormick on Truth Social (October 27, 2026); The Wall Street Journal (September 4, 2026); U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Canada, "Fact Sheet: Monitoring Canadian Activities in U.S. Politics" (October 21, 2026); Chatham House, "What the Burnham government should do in its foreign policy" (Bronwen Maddox, Olivia O'Sullivan and Owen Jenkins, August 27, 2026); President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social (October 27, 2026); Bloomberg (October 24, 2026); The Irish Times; GDP: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Eurostat, Statistics Canada, Bank of Canada Monetary Policy Report (October 28, 2026), Wall Street Journal survey of economists (October 23, 2026), Société Générale (October 26, 2026); election results as reported by CTV News, CP24, The Irish Times and Bloomberg