March 18, 2025 (EIRNS)—After being sworn in as the new Canadian Prime Minister on March 14, Mark Carney broke tradition by making Europe and Britain, rather than the U.S., his first overseas trip. On March 17 Carney met with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in London, in a clear message to Trump about who Carney thinks are his allies. Despite this, according to media reports, neither Macron nor Starmer reacted to Carney’s provocation, and did not directly comment on Trump’s talk about annexing Canada or the tariff war. Going out of his way to flatter his hosts, during a press conference with Macron, Carney said that Canada is “the most European of non-European countries.”
During his meeting with Starmer, Carney said the prime minister’s leadership on Ukraine had been “decisive” at a “point in history where the world is being reordered.” Starmer noted of Carney and Canada: “It doesn’t surprise me that our two countries see this through a similar lens, with the same objectives.”
