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    1. Any-Original-6113 on

      Mark Carney is moving away from the US and closer to Europe on defense and trade.

      Canada may not want be the 51st US state, but it’s increasingly acting like the 28th state of the European Union — at least in spirit.

      Since taking office last year, Prime Minister Mark Carney has made cozying up to Europe a core part of his strategy as he tries to break Canada’s economic and security dependence on the US.

      He’s repeatedly described Canada as the “most European of non-European countries,” and is forging closer ties on defense, trade and diplomacy. Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand dropped by an EU foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels yesterday.

      The Canadian leader attended the European Political Community Summit in Armenia last week, and met the German chancellor in Norway in March. The coming weeks will see Carney in France for the Group of Seven, while Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin has also invited him to visit

      Carney is on familiar turf. As Bank of England governor during the 2016 Brexit referendum, he made clear the economic risks of the UK quitting the EU.

      A decade on, it was in Europe, at Davos in January, that he unveiled his middle powers strategy of working with like-minded nations to counter coercion by global giants.

      Military spending is at the forefront of the burgeoning Canada-Europe relationship. Carney is pouring billions of dollars into defense, and he’s made it an explicit goal to reduce the amount spent on American-made equipment.

      Canada is the only non-European country to join the EU’s military procurement program known as SAFE, and European firms are making a hard charge for submarine and fighter-jet contracts.

      Yet Canada still has just one land border, and it happens to be with the world’s largest economy — about two-thirds of exports still flow south.

      With the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement coming up for re-negotiation, Carney has to step carefully in making new best friends

    2. EditedRed on

      I think most people in the EU veiwed Canada as „EU like“ for decades. The climate is like Scandinavia and they speak French.

    3. SmartCookingPan on

      Call it however it pleases you, stronger ties between EU and Canada are an enormous benefit to both and to the world.

    4. saschaleib on

      I thought we all learned that Canada indeed has another land border – with Denmark.

    5. vkstu on

      >Canada may not want be the 51st US state, but it’s increasingly acting like the 28th state of the European Union

      Or, you know… it’s just being its own country with its own decisions which happen to align with EU’s policy and ideals. This writing as if Canada either has to be the 51st U.S. state or the 28th European Union country only shows how Bloomberg is acting increasingly like an extension of ‚modern‘ U.S. ‚politics‘.

      >Yet Canada still has just one land border, and it happens to be with the world’s largest economy

      Sigh… (also, it has two).

      >With the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement coming up for re-negotiation, Carney has to step carefully in making new best friends

      Ah yeah, the blackmail attitude is really dripping off the text here. Woe upon them if they even consider making ’new‘ best friends.

    7. Void-Cooking_Berserk on

      Canada is acting like an independent country that can make deals with whoever they want.

    9. Signal-Initial-7841 on

      As if Donald Trump didn’t order his MAGA cult to demonize Canada, slap tariffs on it, accuse Canada of “ripping off” America, openly call for the annexation of Canada as the 51st state, and funding the so-called Alberta “independence” movement. If anything, an openly hostile American government basically reminded Canada that they need to reduce their reliance on their southern neighbor that they can no longer trust. If anything, Canada is an independent country that is diversifying its trade and defense deals and EU just happens to be one of them.

    10. RGB755 on

      As a German-Canadian… no. Canada and the EU are close, as they should be, but they’re both still politically distinct. Canada faces different challenges from the EU and vice-versa. There’s a lot of ways in which they can synergize, and should, but I don’t see either of them making a realistic push towards political integration. 

      Speaking as a citizen of both… let’s be good allies instead of a bad union. There’s no objective benefit to membership that can’t be achieved through a good bilateral treaty. 

    13. electroforger on

      it’s what happens when you call the Prime Minister „Governor“. Violating Canada intentionally is a constant option to the US now.

      the Canadians I know say the trust that was broken in a few weeks the past year won’t be restored in generations. Not Don Orange is the problem, but that there was, is no one stopping him.

    15. politis1988 on

      Lord, here we go again. Yes for stronger ties between Canada and the EU. I fully support it. But this wet dream of Canada as an EU member state is so strange, though. We get it. You don’t have to post it every week.

    16. PurpleV93 on

      I would love the EU to span wider than the continent of Europe. Make it a voluntary combination of states under one umbrella, following the same core principles and values. Canada is more than welcome to join.

    17. Mormegil71 on

      They would be welcome to join for me. They are basically honorary Nordic, with the climate, hockey and all.

    20. GovernmentBig2749 on

      USA is out, Canada is my new best friend (two indians bro shaking hands meme)

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