OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Paris and London on Monday to seek alliances as he deals with U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy. Carney is purposely making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of the two countries that shaped Canada’s early existence.

The economist and former head of the Canadian central bank Mark Carney took office as the country's new prime minister on Friday, replacing Justin Trudeau, who resigned earlier this year. Canada's Governor General,

U.S. President Donald Trump, who has imposed tariffs on Canadian goods and threatened to make Canada the 51st state, has loomed large over the contest.