Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed the European Parliament on Thursday, calling for deeper cooperation and trade between Canada and the European Union and making a pitch for cooperation with the EU in industries like artificial intelligence, critical minerals and defence.
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Here is a transcript of Carney’s speech, edited for clarity.
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I shall speak to you today about the way in which our response to the current geopolitical rupture must include a new dimension.
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But first of all, I should like to refer to something older, something which considerably pre-dates EU-Canada relations because the depth of our bonds, those which unite us, cannot be measured by trade or what is written in treaties alone.
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Our bonds are deeply rooted in our lands.
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And for decades Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there.
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An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture.
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As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald, a silent witness to humanity’s deepest moral failure.
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Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves.
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Freedom and life must be earned every single day.
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Freedom was gained thanks to the heroism of the European wartime resistance.
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It was nurtured by the founders of the European coal and steel community in the aftermath of war.
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It was fostered by the creation of the European community.
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It was preserved by the establishment of the European Union, and it was developed thanks to the European Union’s enlargement after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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The values embodied by that Goethe oak have also endured in part because the ideals that flourished beneath its branches also crossed the Atlantic.
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In 1917, amidst the devastation of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, a young Canadian lieutenant named Leslie Miller gathered a handful of acorns from the shattered European landscape.
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He carried them home and planted them in Canadian soil near Milken, Ont., where they grew into a majestic forest.
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A century later, a profound circle of renewal was completed.
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Because graphs from Leslie Miller’s Canadian Oaks were repatriated to France and replanted on the same Vimy Ridge where they had been born.
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Seeds, values, ideas, trade, people, and progress carried back and forth across the Atlantic for centuries.
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We do not pursue zero-sum deals.
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Our commitment to the rule of law and our unyielding defence of human dignity, individual freedom, and democracy share the same deep roots, the same unwavering dedication.
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We hold common values, for which we have always fought, and in whose defence we must always remain vigilant.
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We believe that a strong economy is not an end in itself, but a means to a just society.
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We believe that our prosperity grows when it’s shared.
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In his writings, Goethe borrowed a word from the chemists of his day: Wahlverwandtschaften, or the elective affinity of different elements that combine because of their inherent attraction.
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Canada and Europe are not bound by geography, even though our Danish friends know that we share a 3,000 kilometer border in the Arctic.
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We are bound by an affinity — elective, chosen, renewed — and stronger for being so.
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Today our societies are being battered by new storms.
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The multilateral organizations we used to count on have been weakened.
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Today, it is hard to reconcile sovereignty and openness.
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Economic integration is now being weaponized.
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Tariffs being used to exert pressure.
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Financial mechanisms have been used for coercion.
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Supply chains constitute weak points to be exploited.
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Technology is transforming the nature of warfare, the structure of our economies and state’s ability to govern.
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Tech platforms aspire to sovereignty.
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They want to set access rules.
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They want to dictate the rules for regulation and even circumvent them.
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They want to control our data, spread disinformation and steal our children’s childhoods.
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…and 64 more, not listed.
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