Mark Carney, Canada’s new prime minister, broke with tradition on Monday by visiting Europe rather than the United States for his first foreign trip as the country’s leader, with his warm welcome in France and the UK standing in stark contrast to his country’s fracturing relationship with its southern neighbor.

Winning 85.9 percent of Liberal Party members’ votes, he promised that Trump’s trade war would not threaten Canada’s sovereignty. “In trade, as in hockey, Canada will win,” he said in his victory speech earlier this month.