Former Canadian Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff

Amanpour

CNN

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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A spate of new trade agreements shows how America’s global partners are hedging their bets against Trump's volatile tariff policy. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney saw all this coming. Speaking in Davos, he called for 'middle powers' to prepare for the end of the rules-based international order, warning, "if we're not at the table, we're on the menu." Historian Michael Ignatieff, who preceded Carney as head of Canada's Liberal Party, joins the show to discuss. Also on today's show: Director Tamara Kotevska; NYT columnist Thomas Friedman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.6	Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.
0:38.3	The EU seals a trade deal with India and Canada begins a strategic partnership with China.
0:44.3	Was Mark Carney right about our world order rupturing?
0:48.3	I asked former Canadian politician Michael Ignatyev.
0:52.3	Then...
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0:55.0	...and he...
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1:08.0	I speak with the Oscar-nom director, Tamara Katsifska.
1:12.6	Plus, it's entirely driven by the moods, attitudes, and superstitions of a president
1:21.2	who is more unbounded than any president we've basically had in the modern era. New York Times opinion columnist Thomas Friedman tells Walter Isaacson why he thinks Trump's politics are not America first, but me first. I'm going to be the Welcome to the program, everyone.
1:53.3	I'm Bianca-Gal-Ladriga in New York, sitting in for Christian Ammanpur.
1:57.1	Now, a spate of new trade agreements show how America's global partners are hedging their bets against Trump's volatile tariff policy.
2:05.6	In New Delhi, India and the European Union finalized what they call the mother of all deals.
2:11.7	And Britain's Prime Minister Kirstarmer heads to China today on a four-day mission seeking new investment deals there.
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