🇨🇦 Carney runs to Brussels after Washington slams the door

No deliverables, just vibes. Mark Carney is flying to Strasbourg to hear Ursula von der Leyen, then pitch a deeper alliance with the EU on trade, defence, AI and people-to-people mobility, while his own officials admit there will be no massive outcomes, as reported. Translation: Canada gets more bureaucracy, more regulatory convergence, more labour mobility and more elite networking dressed up as strategy.

The absurdity is that this is being sold as sovereignty while Carney shops for approval from a 27-country supranational bloc run by unelected functionaries and Davos jargon. After trade talks with Trump collapse, Ottawa’s answer is not rebuilding Canadian leverage or protecting national industry, but outsourcing the future to Brussels and calling it a unique alliance. John Hannaford is now Carney’s personal representative to the EU, because of course the same governing class that hollowed out Canada thinks the cure is deeper entanglement with another post-national managerial empire.

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