With a US president who talks of making Canada the 51st state, its leader in Europe where it’s not quite the EU’s 28th state on offer, but something the president of the European Commission is calling ‘associate membership’. We’ll ask what that means, how it differs from the close status afforded to the likes of Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK which Carney’s also visiting ahead of his own Strasbourg speech Thursday before the European Parliament.
This friendship is important for both sides. Everything from trade to defence. Several EU countries could use Canada’s energy and minerals, and Canada needs medicin from our pharmaceutical industry and weapons from our defence industry.
Our views on democracy and freedom are the same. We’d prefer Canadian-made lithium batteries for EVs rather than Chinese ones.
We also can’t ignore that you guys’ territory is being threatened by the same guys that threaten Denmark’s. And as the old saying goes. “An enemy of my enemy, is my friend”.
Plus since we share a land border with Denmark, we’re basically in Europe already!