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🇨🇦 What exactly did Mark Carney discuss with Emmanuel Macron? Canada is cutting snow crab quotas for our own fishermen. Yet days after meeting Mark Carney, the French president was reported to have promised access to 3.3 MILLION pounds of snow crab annually off Newfoundland. Read that again. In 2026, Ottawa reduced Newfoundland and Labrador’s overall snow crab quota by 3%. Some fishing areas faced cuts of 20%, 30%, and even 50%. These are Canadian fishermen supporting Canadian families and coastal communities. Then, on September 20, Carney met Macron in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon. Shortly afterward, French media reported that Macron had promised a French fishing company an exploratory licence for 1,500 tonnes of snow crab annually for five years, in waters Canada claims as part of its continental shelf. That’s potentially 16.5 MILLION pounds over five years. Canada’s Fisheries Minister objected. France now says no licence has been issued and that Canada will be consulted before any decision. Good. But that doesn’t answer the obvious questions. What exactly did Carney and Macron discuss? Why was Macron making this commitment when Canada hadn’t agreed? And why are Canadian fishermen facing substantial quota reductions while a foreign president is promising his own industry access to the same resource? Newfoundland’s snow crab industry was worth more than $700 million in 2025. These aren’t just numbers. They’re Canadian jobs, Canadian families and Canadian livelihoods. If we’re serious about Canadian sovereignty and putting Canada first, protecting our fishermen seems like a pretty good place to start.