French envoy: Canada should link with Europe, surpass ‘weak’ military engagement
OTTAWA — France's ambassador to Canada says Ottawa must choose between tying itself entirely to Washington or broadening its links to partner more with Europe — while also calling out Canada's"weak" military engagement.
"This relationship goes far beyond the assertion of common interests. Putin and Xi Jinping share the same hatreds, that of the West, which they want to weaken and push back … and that of democracy, which according to them leads to decadence and the disintegration of nations," he said.Miraillet cited the presidency of George W.
"This asymmetry which has always existed between dictatorships and democracies today has a special dimension." He said that as today's world organizes itself along new axes of power, with the China-Russia pact on one side and democracies on the other, the democratic world shouldn't align itself only with American interests — those, he said,"are not necessarily always convergent with ours, as with yours, dear Canadian friends."
"France and Canada have no other path than that of closer technological and industrial co-operation, of a strengthened capitalistic relationship in what is not a de-globalization phase as some have said, but more simply a decline in trade on a global scale."
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