Newly minted prime minister will sit down with Macron and Starmer but has no immediate plans to meet with Donald Trump
Mark Carney, the new Canadian prime minister, is headed to Paris and London seeking alliances as he deals with Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy.
Carney is deliberately making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of the two countries that shaped Canada’s early existence. At his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Carney noted the country was built on the bedrock of three peoples: French, English and Indigenous. He said Canada was fundamentally different from the US and will “never, ever, in any way shape or form, be part of the United States”.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/17/canada-new-prime-minister-mark-carney-paris-london-visit
Author : Associated Press
Publish date : 2025-03-17 03:06:00
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