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This is a wild news conference!
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
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
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So, is Canada going to become an republic then? (Independent, rather than as a result of annexation.)That seems to be the logical conclusion after Carney’s comments.
@chowderman Whatever Canada is, it better not have a U.S.-style republic where the executive branch is politicized and ideological.
@chowderman@universeodon.comSorry, I misread your post, they were Macron’s words, not Carney’s. And he was in Paris wasn’t he? Should we be surprised that when Carney did speak, that he spoke French?
As he is a technocrat rather than a politician, I would expect Carney to favour institutions over elected politicians.