Amid the wreckage of a once-taken-for-granted continental partnership, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has turned westward across the Atlantic, offering Europe a vision of shared purpose rooted in stability, mutual need, and democratic solidarity. At Canada's first Investment Summit, he named what many had only whispered — that economic interdependence had become a weapon — and proposed a different architecture: a 'unique security and economic alliance' with the European Union. The gesture is both pragmatic and symbolic, a nation recalibrating its place in a world where old certainties hav