Canada’s Sovereignty Under Threat: PM Mark Carney to Visit Britain Amid Rising Tensions with the U.S.:

While Canada's autonomy is under siege, Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to travel to Britain next week for discussions with his counterpart Keir Starmer and King Charles III.

Following these meetings, Carney will attend lunch with President Macron on Monday, who is meeting him in Paris for that purpose. A statement from the AFP describes this as an effort to strengthen 'two of our closest and longest-standing economic and security partnerships,' two nations France and Britain.

Carney’s logic to visit these capitals as the first ones is illustrative of their instrumental role in Canada’s early development.

In the course of his swearing in ceremony on Friday, Carney made the point that the essence of Canada was the French-English-Indigenous fusion, and emphasized that Canada is unlike America and will, 'never, ever in any shape or form, be part of the United States.’

I wouldn’t say that Canada is about to loose its global standing, as a senior representative of the government said before boarding a plane to fetch Carney in Montreal, but it is trying to improve its relations with its founding nations. Speaking on the record, as quoted by AP, the official said that Canada remains ‘a good friend of the United States, but we all know what is going on.

Mark Carney, the former central banker who just turned 60, will hold a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris before heading to London where he hopes to have a discussion concerning the diversification of trade and possible retaliation against Trump's tariffs with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

After that, he is set to see King Charles III who is the Head of State for Canada. Carney's trip to Britain holds some personal value for him considering how he was the first ever noncitizen to be appointed as the Governor of the Bank of England in over three centuries while the institution has existed.

Before heading to Ottawa where it’s believed he will call for an election in the coming days, Carney will go to the Arctic to confirm the security and sovereignty Canada has over its Arctic region.

He is open to a meeting with Trump, but on the condition that Canada’s sovereignty will not be undermined. While there are no immediate plans for him to visit Washington, he is looking to speak to the president in the near future.

Trump has opened up a trade war with Canada while also making known the fact that he is considering slowly annexing Canada which has given rise to Canada’s sovereignty being called into question, time and again.

While Canada has denied the United States’ assertion, the claim is bound to have repercussions in the upcoming elections set to be declared in the next few weeks.

The 25% taxes along with the tariffs and talk of making Canada the 51st state has annoyed Canadians so much that they are trying to 'reduce' American product purchases for as long as possible.

In light of the ongoing trade war, Carney’s government is re-evaluating their intent to buy F-35 jets from the U.S.

This year, the ruling Liberal Party was on track to receive an unprecedented electoral trouncing until now. But after endless suggestions from Trump of Canada becoming the 51st state and the economic war he waged, the party and its newly elected leader stand the chance to rally some support.

As noted by the Associated Press, Robert Bothwell an expert in Canadian history and international relations at University of Toronto stated that Because of the current political climate, “Trump’s always on leave,” it would serve him well to not ever venture south of the border, at least not until the election, because the polls suggest he won't win.

“There’s no point in going to Washington,” said Bothwell. “As (Former Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau’s treatment, to provide so-called hospitality and allow native guests such as perverse Trump to eteprite them — it’s just an absurd exercise in being decently abused by one’s hosts.

"The sad thing is, when he’s in control, make no mistake, ‘respect’ in all its forms is received there in one direction. He expects you to have no dignity at all as you submit to his authority."

At the other side, Daniel Béland, who teaches political sciences at McGill University in Montreal, pointed out the importance of moving away from reliance on the US during the ongoing trade conflict, as around 75% of Canada’s exports are still targeted to the US.

Béland mentioned that Arctic sovereignty is a major concern for Canada.

“President Trump’s bellicose rhetoric towards both Canada and Greenland, coupled with the seeming thaw in relations between Russia, a dominant Arctic power, and the U.S during the term of Trump, has heightened fears over this responsibility which is at once peripheral and vastly central,” Béland said to the Associated Press.