Canada and the European Union are moving toward deeper strategic cooperation as Prime Minister Mark Carney calls for stronger Canada-EU ties amid growing geopolitical and economic pressure. In his address to the European Parliament, Carney proposed closer cooperation on critical minerals, defense, artificial intelligence, energy security, space, financial services and digital trade.
Carney also called for an “alliance for the future,” including closer economic and security links between Canada and Europe. His remarks come amid tensions over tariffs, trade and the changing relationship between Canada, Europe and the United States under Donald Trump.
Watch the full speech and key moments from Carney’s address as Canada and the EU discuss strategic autonomy, sovereignty and a stronger transatlantic partnership.
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Watch the full speech and key moments from Carney’s address as Canada and the EU discuss strategic autonomy, sovereignty and a stronger transatlantic partnership.
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00:00President Metzola, dear Roberta, President von der Leyen, dear Ursula,
00:11Honourable Members of the European Parliament, distinguished colleagues,
00:17thank you for granting me the honour of addressing you
00:23at the beginning of this decisive session. I shall speak to you today about the way in which
00:33our response to the current geopolitical rupture must include a new dimension.
00:43But first of all, I should like to refer to something older. Something which considerably
00:52predates EU-Canada relations because the depth of our bonds, those which unite us, cannot be measured
01:01by trade. Or, what is written in treaties, alone, our bonds are deeply rooted in our lands.
01:13In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettersberg. And for decades,
01:22Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there. An oak on that ridge came to bear his name,
01:29a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture. As the 20th century turned dark,
01:37that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald, a silent witness to humanity's deepest
01:45moral failure. Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves.
01:55Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground.
02:15freedom and life must be earned every single day.
02:26Every day. Every day, not once in 1945, or 1956, or 1989. Every day, including this one.
02:44freedom was gained thanks to the heroism of the European wartime resistance.
02:54It was nurtured by the founders of the European coal and steel community in the aftermath of war.
03:03It was fostered by the creation of the European community. It was preserved by the establishment of the European Union.
03:14And it was developed thanks to the European Union's enlargement after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
03:22The values embodied by that Goethe oak have also endured, in part because the ideals that flourished beneath its branches
03:32also crossed the Atlantic.
03:37In 1917, amidst the devastation of the Battle of Beamy Ridge, a young Canadian Lieutenant named Leslie Miller gathered a
03:46handful of acorns from the shattered European landscape.
03:50He carried them home and planted them in Canadian soil near Milken, Ontario, where they grew into a majestic forest.
03:59A century later, a profound circle of renewal was completed.
04:05Because grafts from Leslie Miller's Canadian oaks were repatriated to France and replanted on the same Vimy Ridge where they
04:14had been born.
04:16This is the essence of the Canada-European Union partnership.
04:22Seeds, values, ideas, trade, people and progress carried back and forth across the Atlantic for centuries.
04:43We are not fair-weather allies.
04:48We do not pursue zero-sum deals.
04:53Our commitment to the rule of law and our unyielding defense of human dignity, individual freedom,
05:01and democracy share the same deep roots, the same unwavering dedication.
05:08We hold common values for which we have always fought and in whose defense we must always remain vigilant.
05:19We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but a means to a just society.
05:38We are committed stewards of our natural heritage.
05:44We believe that our prosperity grows when it's shared these values.
05:50We believe that our kids, this is a sharing of choice, not coincidence.
05:56In his writings, Goethe borrowed a word from the chemists of his day.
06:02Wooll here they are the elective affinity of different elements
06:08that combine because of their inherent attraction.
06:13Canada and Europe are not bound by geography,
06:17even though our Danish friends know
06:21that we share a 3,000-kilometer border in the Arctic.
06:27We are bound by an affinity,
06:31elective, chosen, renewed, and stronger for being so.
06:38Today, our societies are being battered by new storms.
06:48The disruption caused by climate change,
06:52the erosion of democratic norms,
06:55the weaponization of trade,
06:58the multilateral organizations we used to count on
07:01have been weakened.
07:06Today, it is hard to reconcile sovereignty and openness.
07:13Economic integration is now being weaponized,
07:16tariffs being used to exert pressure.
07:22Financial mechanisms have been used for coercion.
07:29Supply chains constitute weak points to be exploited.
07:35Technology is transforming the nature of warfare,
07:38the structure of our economies,
07:40and states' ability to govern.
07:43Tech platforms aspire to sovereignty.
07:48They want to set access rules.
07:52They want to dictate the rules for regulation
07:55and even circumvent them.
07:59They want to control our data,
08:04spread disinformation,
08:07and steal our children's childhoods.
08:10This combination is a ferocious storm.
08:16A single tree will come down in it.
08:19A forest will not.
08:32And that's because beneath the forest floor,
08:35the roots of an oak intertwine with those of its neighbors,
08:39exchanging nutrients, adding strength to strength,
08:41creating a resilient, self-sustaining ecosystem.
08:46Together, Canada and the European Union
08:50can anchor our ground to hold our values
08:53while forming a protective canopy
08:56under which our citizens can thrive.
09:00This is about sovereignty.
09:04Our ability to live as we wish.
09:09It's about the freedoms we must fight for every day.
09:14Because sovereignty requires resilience.
09:17The ability to withstand shocks.
09:21Sovereignty today goes beyond
09:23being able to feed, fuel, and defend ourselves.
09:26It now requires secure access to AIs,
09:29semiconductors, critical minerals,
09:31payment systems, clean energy technologies,
09:34vaccines, space-based communications.
09:37And we all have important gaps
09:39in these strategic capabilities.
09:41And we each must rely on individual nations
09:45or individual companies to fill them.
09:48And that creates vulnerabilities.
09:51Particularly when supposedly global companies
09:55prove national in the breach.
09:58Closing these gaps is not possible alone.
10:02But it's very achievable collectively.
10:05Canada and Europe are each strong.
10:11Europe and Canada are stronger together.
10:30The institutions we've inherited
10:33are organized by geography.
10:36The strategic capabilities that we need
10:39are organized by function.
10:42We can ally by function
10:45if we are bold and deliberate.
10:48And we shouldn't be cowed
10:50by the perceived scale of the task.
10:55Just as dominance is the arrogance of the hegemon,
10:58perfection is the enemy of the good.
11:01The economics of this are clear.
11:03The leverage of the powerful
11:05and an exploitive relationship
11:07collapses well before complete independence is achieved.
11:12Because diversity confers advantage.
11:16The objective is not self-sufficiency,
11:18it's collective resilience.
11:30And it's this mutual advantage
11:32that's at the core of the case
11:34for a deeper partnership
11:36between Canada and Europe.
11:39Europe brings so many things.
11:41Market power, research depth,
11:44advanced manufacturing,
11:45the ability and the will
11:47to set standards
11:48that the world frequently adopts.
11:52A defense industrial base
11:54that's being rebuilt at speed.
11:56Canada brings energy at huge scale
11:59and in every form
12:01that the transition requires.
12:03We have one of the world's
12:05largest endowments of critical minerals,
12:07deep capabilities in space,
12:08AI and quantum,
12:10amongst the strongest banking systems
12:11and the most expert pension capital.
12:13We have unique Arctic geography
12:17and privileged access
12:18to both Atlantic and Pacific networks.
12:21And where our strengths differ,
12:23they complement.
12:25Where they overlap,
12:26they create scale.
12:28We should build on each other's strengths
12:30deliberately, systematically
12:32and rapidly.
12:35We've already begun,
12:36and I thank this Parliament,
12:38we've already begun with CETA,
12:40one of the world's most successful
12:43trade agreements.
12:57And I thank President von der Leyen
12:59and President Costa
13:00for our strategic partnership agreement
13:03struck last June.
13:04We're developing that
13:05and deepening it.
13:07We've also begun
13:08to take advantage
13:09of Canada's role
13:10as the first non-European member of SAFE.
13:14But we should recognize
13:15that the ecosystem we've built
13:17is not yet equal
13:18to the ferocity
13:19of the changing climate.
13:22And nor is it moving fast enough
13:24to match the speed of the upheaval.
13:28Yesterday,
13:29President von der Leyen
13:30spoke of moving beyond CETA
13:32to an alliance for the future,
13:34opening the door
13:36to Canada
13:37to become
13:39the European Union's
13:40first associate member.
13:55Canada
13:58welcomes
13:59this ambition.
14:01I will tell you,
14:02polling shows
14:03that an overwhelming majority
14:04of Canadians support
14:06much closer ties with Europe.
14:18An alliance for the future
14:20is a unique, positive approach
14:24that we will define together,
14:27building on our common strengths
14:29and based on our shared values.
14:30But let me take this opportunity
14:32to say plainly
14:34what Canada proposes.
14:37Canada and Europe
14:39should secure
14:40our strategic autonomy
14:42through deep cooperation
14:43in the full range
14:45of strategic capabilities,
14:47including critical minerals,
14:49defense industrial capacity,
14:51AI and compute,
14:53energy security,
14:54space and payments.
14:57we should move towards
14:58seamless digital trade
15:00and non-agricultural goods
15:01and a wide range of services.
15:04We should deepen
15:05our people-to-people ties,
15:07allowing our youth
15:08to work, study
15:10and live
15:11where they want
15:12on either side
15:13of the Atlantic.
15:27Canadian membership
15:28of Erasmus Plus
15:29would give your students
15:31and ours
15:32more opportunity
15:33to learn
15:34at some of the world's
15:35top universities,
15:36to broaden their horizon
15:38and to build
15:39those lasting ties
15:40that will sustain
15:41our alliance
15:42for the future.
15:52Canadian membership
15:54of the next generation
15:55of Horizon
15:56would allow us
15:57to pool resources,
15:58cooperate on frontier technologies,
16:00leverage our world-class
16:02research institutes
16:03and universities.
16:06Yesterday,
16:14President von der Leyen
16:16announced,
16:17and I quote,
16:18a new European corporation
16:20on critical raw materials
16:22to obtain
16:23and stockpile
16:25the material needed
16:26for electric cars,
16:28for chips and batteries,
16:29clean tech and defense.
16:31I'll observe
16:33that Canada
16:34has deposits
16:35of over 34
16:36critical minerals
16:37and we are among
16:38the top producers
16:39of the 10
16:40most essential
16:41for the energy transition.
16:44Our alliance
16:45can help fill
16:46Europe's need
16:47for reliable supply,
16:50Canada's desire
16:52for advanced
16:53processing capabilities
16:54and our common objective
16:56to complete
16:57value chains
16:58in the transition
17:00and our defense.
17:09Canada can contribute
17:11LNG and hydrogen
17:12at large scale
17:13to support
17:14Europe's energy security,
17:16including
17:17by developing
17:19and leveraging
17:19new port infrastructure
17:21in our high north
17:22and on our east coast.
17:25And Canada, in turn,
17:26can benefit
17:27from your leadership
17:28in so many
17:29clean energy technologies.
17:40We can pool
17:41new sovereign
17:42compute capacity
17:43and build
17:44more secure
17:45broadband connections
17:46between Europe
17:46and Asia
17:47via our common
17:48geography.
17:50Canada and Europe
17:51can join forces
17:53to develop
17:53AI safety protocols,
17:55coordinate common
17:56standards
17:57and strengthen
17:58transparency,
17:59all well-developing
18:01applications
18:01so that our governments
18:02and our companies
18:04can serve our citizens
18:05better.
18:13Canada and Europe
18:14should consider exploring
18:16an integrated market
18:18for financial services,
18:19to broaden choice
18:20and reduce costs
18:21and reduce costs
18:22for our citizens
18:22to improve access
18:24to capital
18:25for our companies
18:26while maintaining
18:27our world-leading
18:28financial resilience.
18:37These are some
18:38of the opportunities.
18:40But the fundamental point
18:42is that the opportunities
18:44that can be created
18:45by an alliance
18:47for the future
18:48are the product
18:49of our common values,
18:51our compatible systems,
18:53our complementary strengths.
18:56And deepening
18:57and widening
18:58our relationship
18:58will strengthen
19:00our sovereignty,
19:02improve affordability
19:04and opportunity
19:05and security
19:06for our citizens
19:08while safeguarding
19:10our abilities
19:11to live our lives
19:13as we choose.
19:16Now,
19:24I also want to be precise
19:27about what I am not proposing.
19:31I'm not proposing
19:32a third block
19:33in order to become
19:35a great power rival
19:36only with better manners.
19:45We do not seek
19:48power to dominate others.
19:51On the contrary,
19:52we are pursuing resilience
19:54so no one,
19:56no one can control
19:58our open markets,
19:59impair our sovereignty,
20:01threaten our territorial integrity
20:02or undermine our freedoms,
20:04our democracies,
20:06our rule of law.
20:23It's these motivations,
20:25these fundamental motivations
20:27combined with our latent
20:28hard power
20:29mean that we can help
20:32to create
20:33the next
20:34just,
20:35stable
20:36and prosperous
20:37world order.
20:44A Canada-EU alliance
20:46would create
20:47a beacon
20:48for other democracies.
20:50An alliance
20:51not defined
20:52by what we oppose,
20:54but about
20:55what we are for.
20:57freedom,
20:58solidarity,
20:59prosperity,
21:00sustainability.
21:08An alliance
21:09that builds
21:10resilience
21:10for what it allows
21:11us to do
21:12for our citizens
21:13and our citizens
21:14to do
21:15for themselves.
21:17An alliance
21:18strong enough
21:19so that no one
21:20can dictate
21:21our choices.
21:22An alliance
21:23open enough
21:24that others
21:25can join.
21:26An alliance
21:27principled enough
21:29that our strength
21:30reinforces
21:31international law
21:32rather than
21:34seeks to replace it.
21:41to conclude
21:43in my country
21:45it's often said
21:46that Canada
21:47became a nation
21:49during that battle
21:50of Vimy Ridge.
21:52And certainly
21:55the thousands
21:56of Canadians
21:57who didn't return
21:58from that battle
21:59sacrificed their lives
22:00for something much bigger
22:02than themselves.
22:04One who did come home
22:06stopped first
22:07to pick up some acorns.
22:09And today
22:09the same Vimy oaks
22:11grow in Canada
22:13as in France.
22:15Living proof
22:16that what we cultivate
22:18together
22:18can survive
22:19the darkest winter
22:20to thrive again.
22:22So let us now
22:24deepen those roots,
22:26widen this canopy,
22:28and grow
22:29a transatlantic forest
22:31under which
22:31our citizens
22:32can flourish
22:33as free people
22:35on free ground
22:36every single day.
22:39Thank you very much.
22:40Nice to be here.
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22:53Bye.
22:54Bye.
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