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.

The new Prime Minister chose Europe, not the U.S., as his first foreign trip and will visit France and the U.K.

The new prime minister dubbed Canada “the most European of non-European countries” while speaking alongside French President Emmanuel Macron.