Carney: Canada is a mosaic, not a melting pot. And this is the distinction that matters. Because a mosaic doesn't dissolve or blend its pieces. Each is stitched to each and all the pieces hold all. And the beauty is in the arrangement, not in the blending.

Mark Carney, "Together we - Canada, Ireland, and the EU - are one of the largest economic, cultural, technological, financial blocks in the world" "But to what purpose? Well, we are and can be a force for good because we safeguard the values of human rights, of dignity and pluralism that are people hold dear" "Just as Irish monks centuries ago preserved, copied and taught classical knowledge amid the Dark Ages. We must preserve and defend our values, our traditions, our interests. During this rupture" "Building true sovereignty cannot be achieved in isolation. It requires diversification. It requires partnership" "Coalitions that work issue by issue with partners that share enough common ground to act together" "And that's why Canada was the first non European country to join the EU's Safe Defence Procurement Program" "It's why we're championing efforts to build a bridge between the Trans Pacific Partnership and the European Union" "Something that would create a trading bloc of one and a half billion people, a rules based trading block of one and a half billion people" "With these shared values, we have developed a unique worldview, transatlantic worldview, if you will, rooted in a simple but profound conviction that we are stronger when we are connected, that our prosperity grows when it's shared, and that we are the stewards of our lands" "Canada, Ireland and Europe can be pivotal, powerful and purposeful, a force for good." "The EU maintains preferential access to over 80 partner countries, making it the top trading partner for 80 nations globally" "Together, we are powerful because we have the capacity to act together" "Combined, the population is more than twice that of the United States" "We have a larger cultural export industry and a more diverse one, I might add, a similarly sized GDP, comparable R&D spend"

Minister for International Development and Diaspora, Neale Richmond TD, joins Ambassador Concannon to reflect on his highly successful visit to Canada to officially launch Ireland’s Diaspora and Sports Diplomacy Strategies. ireland.ie/en/canada/ottawa/…

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Carney’s Irish grandfather fought off mob of 50 armed men as young police recruit during civil war theglobeandmail.com/politics…