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Canadian Prime Minister Carney’s first foreign meeting is with French President Macron.
Traditionally, the first meeting would be with USA or UK. But now his first meeting is with France.
Symbolically, this represents a big re-alignment geo-politically. And if you hear Macron’s words, you’ll understand exactly what this means: he says Canada and France have a shared cultural heritage and values.
But also, unlike Trudeau, Carney has an Anglophone heritage. Not Francophone. Yet here, he primarily speaks French in this news conference. Because the emphasis here is that French is a core element of Canadian identity.
What does this mean? Already, Canadian media are calling France—not USA—Canada’s closest ally. This has never happened in my lifetime.
https://youtu.be/RHnyIWZh_cs
@atomicpoet right now this is the proper play. Macron is the only leader who met with Trump a few weeks ago that publicly disagreed with him. Starmer refused to address the annexation rhetoric.
It is wild, and a completely different path than we’ve been on before but Canada has more reliable allies in the EU right now than anywhere else.
I just did a search on le Monde's front page and no trace of the word Carney. Right now it seems to me that this press conference is important for Canadians and nobody else.
And Macron is infamous for saying things and doing the exact opposite.
He's now very unpopular in France and always looking for ways to seize attention.
This is not to say that he didn't do the right thing this time (he did, both with Trump and Carney)
Just trying to put things in context.
@quatrezoneilles
Je crois que vous avez raison, mais c'est TRÈS important pour nous autres (
). N'importe quelle expression de solidarité nous vaut beaucoup face aux enjeux de ce moment historique.