Diversifying trade makes sense. Canada sends about 70 percent of its exports to the United States and only 5.5 percent to the European Union.

Associate membership is something else…..It ties Canada’s political future to a bloc whose second-largest economy is rioting and running out of fiscal road.

Before Carney signs Canadians into deeper bonds with a union under assault from within—in France—and externally, on its eastern flank, Canadians deserve to hear him explain what associate membership would oblige Canada to.

And what, exactly, is gained by joining a house that can no longer pay its bills while its streets are on fire?

https://www.thebureau.news/p/while-france-burns-driven-by-the?