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00:00In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettersberg.
00:08And for decades Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there.
00:13An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture.
00:22As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald, a silent witness
00:30to humanity's deepest moral failure.
00:36Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves.
00:43Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground.
01:03Freedom and life must be earned every single day.
01:14Every day.
01:20Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989.
01:26Every day, including this one.
01:30La liberté a été conquise grâce à l'héroïsme de la résistance européenne pendant la guerre.
01:39Elle a été cultivée par les fondateurs de la communauté européenne du charbon et de l'acier au lendemain de
01:47la guerre.
01:48Elle a été favorisée par la création de la communauté européenne.
01:53Elle a été préservée par la mise en place de l'Union européenne et elle s'est développée grâce à
02:03son élargissement après la chute du maire du Bel-Air.
02:09The values embodied by that Goethe oak have also endured, in part because the ideals that flourished beneath its branches
02:20also crossed the Atlantic.
02:24In 1917, amidst the devastation of the Battle of Beamy Ridge, a young Canadian lieutenant named Leslie Miller gathered a
02:34handful of acorns from the shattered European landscape.
02:37He carried them home and planted them in Canadian soil near Milken, Ontario, where they grew into a majestic forest.
02:46A century later, a profound circle of renewal was completed because grafts from Leslie Miller's Canadian oaks were repatriated to
02:58France and replanted on the same Vimy Ridge where they had been born.
03:04This is the essence of the Canada-European partnership, seeds, values, ideas, trade, people, and progress carried back and forth
03:18across the Atlantic for centuries.
03:31We are not fair-weather allies.
03:35We do not pursue zero-sum deals.
03:39Our commitment to the rule of law and our unyielding defence of human dignity, individual freedom, and democracy share the
03:51same deep roots, the same unwavering dedication.
03:55We hold common values for which we have always fought and in whose defence we must always remain vigilant.
04:06We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but a means to a just society.
04:15We are committed stewards of our natural heritage.
04:30We believe that our prosperity grows when it's shared these values.
04:38This is a sharing of choice, not coincidence.
04:44In his writings, Goethe borrowed a word from the chemists of his day.
04:50Volver Wandschaften, or the elective affinity of different elements that combine because of their inherent attraction.
05:01Canada and Europe are not bound by geography, even though our Danish friends know that we share a 3,000
05:10-kilometre border in the Arctic.
05:14We are bound by an affinity, elective, chosen, renewed, and stronger for being so.
05:25Aujourd'hui, nos sociétés sont secouées par de nouvelles tempêtes, les bouleversements liés au changement climatique, l'érosion des normes
05:39démocratiques, l'utilisation du commerce comme armes.
05:44Les institutions multilatérales sur lesquelles nous comptions ont été affaiblies.
05:50La souveraineté et l'ouverture sont aujourd'hui difficiles à concilier.
05:57L'intégration économique est désormais utilisée comme une arme et les droits de douane comme un moyen de pression.
06:06Les mécanismes financiers ont été utilisés à des fins de coercion.
06:13Les chaînes d'approvisionnement constituent des points faibles à exploiter.
06:19Les technologies transforment la nature de la guerre, la structure des économies et la capacité des États à gouverner.
06:27Les plateformes technologiques aspirent à la souveraineté.
06:33Elles veulent fixer les conditions d'accès.
06:37Elles veulent dicter les règles en matière de la réglementation et même les contourner.
06:46Elles veulent contrôler nos données, répandre les désinformations, voler l'enfance de nos enfants.
06:58Cette combinaison est une ferocious storm.
07:03Un seul arbre va descendre dans un arbre.
07:06Un arbre ne va descendre.
07:20Et c'est parce qu'il y a de l'eau, les roots de l'eau intertient avec ses amis,
07:26en exchanger des nutriments, en adding de l'esprit de l'esprit,
07:29en creating un éco-sustaining resilient.
07:34Together, Canada and the European Union can anchor our ground to hold our values while
07:42forming a protective canopy under which our citizens can thrive.
07:48This is about sovereignty.
07:52Our ability to live as we wish.
07:56It's about the freedoms we must fight for every day.
08:01Because sovereignty requires resilience, the ability to withstand shocks.
08:08Sovereignty today goes beyond being able to feed, fuel and defend ourselves.
08:13It now requires secure access to AIs, semiconductors, critical minerals, payment systems, clean
08:20energy technologies, vaccines, space-based communications.
08:25And we all have important gaps in these strategic capabilities.
08:30And we each must rely on individual or individual companies to fill them.
08:36And that creates vulnerabilities, particularly when supposedly global companies prove national
08:43in the breach.
08:46Closing these gaps is not possible alone, but it's very achievable collectively.
08:54Canada and Europe are each strong.
08:58Europe and Canada are stronger together.
09:17The institutions we've inherited are organized by geography.
09:23The strategic capabilities that we need are organized by function.
09:30We can ally by function if we are bold and deliberate.
09:36And we shouldn't be cowed by the perceived scale of the task.
09:42Just as dominance is the arrogance of the hegemon, perfection is the enemy of the good.
09:48The economics of this are clear.
09:51The leverage of the powerful in an exploitive relationship collapses well before complete
09:57independence is achieved, because diversity confers advantage.
10:03The objective is not self-sufficiency, it's collective resilience.
10:16And it's this mutual advantage that's at the core of the case for a deeper partnership
10:23between Canada and Europe.
10:26Europe brings so many things, market power, research depth, advanced manufacturing, the
10:33ability and the will to set standards that the world frequently adopts, a defense industrial
10:40base that's being rebuilt at speed.
10:44Canada brings energy at huge scale and in every form that the transition requires.
10:51We have one of the world's largest endowments of critical minerals, deep capabilities in space,
10:55AI and quantum, amongst the strongest banking systems and the most expert pension capital.
11:01We have unique Arctic geography and privileged access to both Atlantic and Pacific networks.
11:08And where our strengths differ, they complement.
11:12Where they overlap, they create scale.
11:16We should build on each other's strengths deliberately, systematically and rapidly.
11:22We have already begun, and I thank this Parliament, we have already begun with CETA, one of the
11:28world's most successful trade agreements.
11:31Thank you.
11:44And I thank President von der Leyen and President Costa for our strategic partnership agreements
11:50struck last June.
11:51We're developing that and deepening it.
11:54We've also begun to take advantage of Canada's role as the first non-European member of SAFE.
12:01But we should recognize that the ecosystem we've built is not yet equal to the ferocity of the
12:07changing climate, and nor is it moving fast enough to match the speed of the upheaval.
12:15Yesterday, President von der Leyen spoke of moving beyond CETA to an alliance for the future, opening
12:23the door to Canada to become the European Union's first associate member.
12:45Canada welcomes this ambition, and I will tell you polling shows that an overwhelming majority of Canadians support much closer
12:54ties with Europe.
13:05An alliance for the future is a unique, positive approach that we will define together, building on our common strengths
13:16and based on our shared values.
13:17But let me take this opportunity to say plainly what Canada proposes.
13:25Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities, including critical
13:35minerals, defense industrial capacity, AI and compute, energy security, space and payments.
13:44We should move towards seamless digital trade and non-agricultural goods and a wide range of services.
13:51We should deepen our people to people ties, allowing our youth to work, study and live where they want on
14:00either side of the Atlantic.
14:14Canadian membership of Erasmus Plus would give your students and ours more opportunity to learn at some of the world's
14:22top universities, to broaden their horizon and to build those lasting ties that will sustain our alliance for the future.
14:39Canadian membership of the next generation of Horizon would allow us to pool resources, cooperate on frontier technologies, leverage our
14:49world-class research institutes and universities.
15:01Yesterday, President von der Leyen announced, and I quote, a new European corporation on critical raw materials to obtain and
15:11stockpile the material needed for electric cars, for chips and batteries, clean tech and defense.
15:19I'll observe that Canada has deposits of over 34 critical minerals, and we are among the top producers of the
15:2710 most essential for the energy transition.
15:30Our alliance can help fill Europe's need for reliable supply, Canada's desire for advanced processing capabilities and our common objective
15:43to complete value chains in the transition and our defense.
15:56Canada can contribute LNG and hydrogen at large scale to support Europe's energy security, including by developing and leveraging new
16:07port infrastructure in our high north and on our east coast.
16:11And Canada, in turn, can benefit from your leadership in so many clean energy technologies.
16:27We can pool new sovereign compute capacity and build more secure broadband connections between Europe and Asia via our common
16:36geography.
16:36Canada and Europe can join forces to develop AI safety protocols, coordinate common standards, and strengthen transparency, all well-developing
16:48applications so that our governments and our companies can serve our citizens better.
17:00Canada and Europe should consider exploring an integrated market for financial services, to broaden choice and reduce costs for our
17:09citizens, to improve access to capital for our companies while maintaining our world-leading financial resilience.
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17:25These are some of the opportunities.
17:27But the fundamental point is that the opportunities that can be created by an alliance for the future are the
17:36product of our common values, our compatible systems, our complimentary strengths,
17:42And deepening and widening our relationship will strengthen our sovereignty, improve affordability and opportunity and security for our citizens, while
17:56safeguarding our abilities to live our lives as we choose.
18:10Now, I also want to be precise about what I am not proposing.
18:18I'm not proposing a third block in order to become a great power rival only with better manners.
18:32We do not seek power to dominate others.
18:37On the contrary, we are pursuing resilience so no one, no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty,
18:47threaten our territorial integrity or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law.
19:09It's these motivations, these fundamental motivations, combined with our latent hard power,
19:15mean that we can help to create the next just, stable and prosperous world order.
19:30A Canada-EU alliance would create a beacon for other democracies.
19:36An alliance not defined by what we oppose, but about what we are for.
19:43Freedom, solidarity, prosperity, sustainability.
19:54An alliance that builds resilience for what it allows us to do for our citizens and our citizens to do
20:01for themselves.
20:03An alliance strong enough so that no one can dictate our choices.
20:08An alliance open enough that others can join.
20:26And to conclude, in my country it's often said that Canada became a nation during that battle of Vimy Ridge.
20:38And certainly, the thousands of Canadians who didn't return from that battle sacrificed their lives for something much bigger than
20:49themselves.
20:50One who did come home stopped first to pick up some acorns.
20:55And today, the same Vimy oaks grow in Canada as in France.
21:01Living proof that what we cultivate together can survive the darkest winter to thrive again.
21:08So let us now deepen those roots, widen this canopy, and grow a transatlantic forest under which our citizens can
21:19flourish
21:19as free people on free ground every single day.
21:25Thank you very much.
21:26Thank you very much.
21:28Thank you very much.
21:39Applaudissements.
22:11Applaudissements.
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