Opening Speech bei der All In in Montreal/Kanada

Es gilt das gesprochene Wort. Minister Solomon, Evan, Ms. Turcotte, Dr. Gomez, Aidan, Prof. Bengio, Yoshua, Representatives of ALL IN partners, Executives, Founders, Researchers, Investors, Ladies and Gentlemen! Good morning! I am so excited to be here. Thank you for having us at ALL IN. On January 20 th this year, the Honourable Prime Minister Mark Carney said something at Davos that deeply inspired me: “Middle powers must act together because if you are not at the table, you are on the menu.” And he added: “We are no longer just relying on the strength of our values, but also the value of our strength.” Those two sentences capture the reality we face and the task before us. Canada is a great nation. Canada’s strength hasn’t been about making itself bigger. It has been about making the world around it safer, freer and more humane. I bring very warm greetings from Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the German Federal Government. We deeply value our friendship with Canada. In an uncertain world, our shared commitment to freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law gives us direction. Evan, from our very first conversation, I felt we could speak openly and trust each other. Tha...