News Summary

• With trade, finance, technology, and supply chains having all become instruments of coercion, Canada, Europe, and other likeminded democracies must come together to defend their interests.
• But strategic convergence between governments is not enough; if a new alliance is to endure, it needs deep roots in society.
• Any new partnership between democratic societies will be stronger if ordinary citizens, civil-society groups, businesses, universities, the media, and local communities play a meaningful role in shaping it.
• That is certainly true of the Canada–Europe relationship as it enters a new phase.