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.
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@atomicpoet I don’t claim to be any kind of expert but I have serious concerns about Starmer. The UK Foreign Secretary was just interviewed on CBC Radio and was downright evasive when asked about the “annexation“ issue.
@StaceyCornelius @atomicpoet Sir Keir thinks he still *has* a “special relationship” with America. It would be funny if it weren’t so tragically naïve.
@Beltliner403 @StaceyCornelius @atomicpoet He's not the only one, Albo thinks so too.
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I don’t think / hope that’s not true.
I think he’s watching closely with a bucket of popcorn.
@Kirsty @StaceyCornelius @atomicpoet @Beltliner403 you have way more faith in him than I do. I notice that Dutton has gone very quiet on the idea of buying more F35's though, but that was probably just another thought bubble that the media didn't press him on.