But for Carney, who has assured Canadians they could trust him in a crisis, forging new agreements with Europe is just one piece of a plan to reposition Canada's place in the world in response to attacks from US President Donald Trump.
"America is trying to break us so that they can own us. And I promised that will never, ever happen. Our future won't be decided in Washington," Carney said in August when he dramatically broke off trade negotiati…