Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking across the Atlantic Ocean for a better set of friends amid his nation’s falling out with the United States. The prime minister is visiting France and the United Kingdom this week to affirm Canadian ties to Europe,

President Donald Trump since his second White House term began has said Canada, Greenland and the Panama Canal should become U.S. property.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has declared Canada “the most European” nation outside the continent and has identified three foundational “peoples” for Canada — Indigenous, French and British.