Former French defense advisor: Free world rallying around Europe

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00:00And I just wanted to ask you, last of all, General Trincon, about the visit to France

00:06by the Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney. I mean, how interesting do you think it is

00:11that he chose France, specifically Paris, as his first destination in his capacity as

00:18Prime Minister, and not the US, as we have tended to see in the past from Canadian Prime

00:24Ministers? What does this say to us? What message do you think he's sending out?

00:29I've got very good relations with the Canadians, and I know that they are very upset about

00:35what Mr Trump has said, that you will be, you know, 51, the 51st state of the US will

00:44be Canada. So they are very upset. And there is something very interesting, is that the

00:51free world now is more concentrating around Europe than around the US. You know, in the

00:58meeting last year, last week, we had Japanese, Australian, New Zealand, Canadian, of course,

01:07it was amazing. So apparently, with the current administration in the US, there is a sort

01:15of opposition between what is the free world and what the US represents. And so I think

01:22that this visit by the Canadian was the first step to show that really, they are closer

01:27on this side of the Atlantic than on the other side. And may I say that the UK has

01:33realised that they are on our side of the Atlantic, which is very important.