With the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) now on life support, thanks to the increasingly rancorous trade war between the United States and Canada, it appears that Canada’s globalist leadership, helmed by Prime Minister Mark Carney, is looking at a new option for extending the European multilateral and globalist system to North America.
On Wednesday, September 16, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, delivering the EU’s “state of the union” address (with Carney in attendance), announced a proposal for Canada to become the EU’s first-ever “associate member.” The announcement came on the heels of remarks made the previous Sunday by Carney, in which he revealed that Canada was developing “a unique alliance with the European Union.” The media, of course, is portraying all of this as U.S. President Donald Trump’s fault, with The New York Times proclaiming, “Trump Wanted Canada as the 51st State. He Ended Up Pushing It Toward the European Union.”
Carney: A Globalists’ Globalist
While there may be a little truth to that, it is also a fact that Carney is a globalists’ globalist, dedicated to Canadian integration with the “global order” by any means possible. He is one of the most credentialed central bankers on the planet, having served as governor of both the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada (the only person ever to have done so). On his first trip abroad as prime minister, Carney told an audience in Paris last year that Canada was “the most European of non-European countries.” And in a keynote speech in Davos earlier this year, he decried the “rupture in the world order” and urged middle powers to pick up the slack and “build a new order.”
It is clear from last year’s Canadian elections that Mark Carney is the globalists’ handpicked agent to act as a foil for Trump’s America First, anti-globalist actions. With this week’s bombshell EU announcement, their investment in Carney appears to be paying off handsomely. While it isn’t entirely clear what an “associate membership” in the EU would entail, or how it would be brought about, Carney lost no time affirming his commitment to the proposal, delivering a stemwinder to the European Commission the following day in which he welcomed deeper integration with Europe. Canada, he told the Europeans, sought closer integration in finance, trade, AI and other tech, defense, critical minerals, and more. He received a standing ovation, and later clarified to reporters that he was re-aligning Canada with Europe because of the intransigence of, well, other countries:
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