🇨🇦 Trump administration muses about hitting Canada with EU-style tariffs over Carney’s EU pivot

Carney calls an EU embrace more sovereign, and instantly Canada gets discussed like a tariff category. That is the joke at the heart of this whole performance. Tie yourself tighter to Brussels and the UN crowd, then pretend it is a nationalist project. Ursula von der Leyen floats associate member status, Trump calls it potentially hostile, and suddenly Ottawa’s grand strategy looks less like sovereignty and more like outsourcing our future to whichever transnational bloc smiles nicest. Even the reported logic is absurd: Canada could be treated less like a neighbour and more like the EU because our own leadership keeps advertising an eastward political pivot.

This is what post-national management looks like. Instead of defending Canada’s independent economic interest, the ruling class ricochets between Washington and Brussels, dressing dependence up as sophistication. The result is exactly what you would expect: more uncertainty, more leverage for foreign powers, and another lecture from elites about why surrendering room to maneuver is actually strategic. Sovereignty is not joining someone else’s club with better branding.

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