"Europe and Canada are each strong. Europe and Canada are even stronger together," Carney told EU lawmakers in Strasbourg. "I am not proposing a third bloc in order to become a great-power rival - only with better manners," he continued. "We do not seek power to dominate others. On the contrary, we are pursuing resilience so that no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law."