French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, a small three-island French archipelago of fewer than 6,000 people situated just 25 kilometres off the coast of Canada's Newfoundland, for his country's first presidential visit to the territory in over a decade. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is joining him on Sunday, marking the first official visit by a Canadian prime minister to the islands. The three-day trip is being closely watched as a pointed diplomatic signal at a time of escalating tensions between North America and Washington.

The visit is laden with symbolism. Saint Pierre and Miquelon is France's only remaining possession in North America — a vestige of the vast territories Paris once controlled across the continent — and both leaders are keen to underscore what the French presidency called a shared commitment to