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.
We’re eager to help you guys out, because you’re in a tariff war with a country you got too close to. Basically you put all your eggs in one basket. We’d like to see you win this trade war, instead of Trump getting what he wants.
Appreciate the friendship! I didn’t mean anything negative. I was just observing that several European leaders have brought this up in recent months.
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!
I’m sure that’s more true with Denmark especially because of threats to Greenland. You know what’s up the same as us for the most part.