Envoy says France admires Carney’s U.S. stance - BERITAJA

OTTAWA – France’s caller ambassador to Canada says her state admires the Carney government’s consequence to “extremely radical” American demands and is calling for swift action to boost Canada’s strategical ties pinch Europe.

“My ngo is very clear. It’s to activity toward making France 1 of Canada’s closest friends successful Europe, successful each field, successful each sector,” French Ambassador Hélène Farnaud-Defromont told BERITAJA connected Friday.

In her first question and reply since her posting started past month, Farnaud-Defromont said successful French her state sees Prime Minister Mark Carney’s attack to managing waste and acquisition negotiations pinch U.S. President Donald Trump’s management arsenic “exemplary.”

The premier curate called a halt to waste and acquisition talks pinch Washington successful August and accused the Trump management of bringing caller demands to the array astatine the past minute. Carney besides has vowed to protect Canada’s connection sovereignty and expertise to modulate large tech firms.

“The stance, which is some very calm and very determined, by Canadian leaders successful the look of demands from the U.S. that are, aft all, highly extremist is really an cognition that commands admiration successful Europe and … successful France successful particular,” she said.

“We cognize that a committedness made aliases a pact signed will beryllium honoured, but successful fact, we could nary longer beryllium judge of immoderate of that.”

The European Union handles about of France’s waste and acquisition talks pinch Washington. French President Emmanuel Macron criticized the EU’s determination this summertime to judge an American woody that imposes a 15 per cent tariff connected galore European equipment but not connected American ones.

Farnaud-Defromont said Europe and Canada are some navigating a turbulent world ambiance marked by economical upheaval, a warfare successful Ukraine and governmental polarization.

France is grappling pinch a fund situation and increasing vexation among teenagers about the acquisition strategy that boiled complete into convulsive clashes pinch constabulary this past week.

The broader uncertainty makes Canada “a very important and preferred partner” for France, the ambassador said.

“We, France and the French people, really want to coming ourselves arsenic sincere, reliable and patient partners, astatine the bosom of these world uncertainties,” she said.

Farnaud-Defromont said that intends building connected already beardown ties based connected shared values, quality rights, Canada’s galore French-speaking communities and dozens of French companies that person operated for decades here.

“We person a bilateral narration that is very good, broad and substantial, but we judge we could execute moreover much together, successful areas that are genuinely strategic,” she said.

She said France offers Canada “win-win” co-operation successful sectors specified arsenic aerospace, defence, energy, quantum exertion and artificial intelligence.

France is 1 of 10 European Union countries which person ne'er ratified a waste and acquisition woody pinch Canada, moreover though that woody has been successful effective cognition for almost a decade. The French Senate voted against ratifying the woody successful 2014 successful the look of lobbying by the country’s politically delicate agriculture industry.

Farnaud-Defromont said the French and Canadian economies would use if some countries did much together successful complimentary fields specified arsenic abstraction and defence.

Canada and the EU are holding a bilateral acme later this month. Many observers dream that gathering produces specifications of a projected caller business betwixt Canada and the EU — 1 that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen controversially framed arsenic “associate” EU rank for Canada.

Carney has alternatively referred to an “alliance of the future.” Farnaud-Defromont said actual outcomes are much important than phrasing.

“We request to build this up. It’s very caller and we request to do it reasonably quickly,” she said of the partnership. “We don’t person clip to walk years haggling complete commas and periods.”

Farnaud-Defromont said Carney’s reside past period to the European Parliament successful the French metropolis of Strasbourg resonated pinch the French people. In that speech, the premier curate said of Canada’s long-standing ties pinch the continent and the galore fields wherever Canada and Europe could activity much intimately together.

“We do not want to wholly disrupt the system, but we do want to find caller alliances and caller multilateral chat formats,” she said.

“We request to beryllium inventive, we request to beryllium innovative, flexible, and agile.”

This study by BERITAJA was first published Oct. 11, 2026.

— With files from Émilie Bergeron