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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
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@atomicpoet

In a way it's good that the aberrant Trump has waken up the importance of performance inside politics. Not Wrestling performative but real substancial performative.
The image here is that Canada is flexing worldwide. Is that good? Fuck yeah, That Canada is not hidden behind America and flexing world wide of course its great.
The success of this imminent crisis will fall on two sectors, the political leadership, and that is going well. And the business leadership, we will see ho that one will go.

Now for a second just imagine a Pierre Polievre instead of pushing Canada into a global stage pushing Canada into a subservient place under Trump.

I just cant belive anyone so blind and dumb to vote for someone like Polievre.