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Canada and the European Union Are in Love. Where Can It Lead?
The New York Times ^ | May 9, 2026 | Matina Stevis-Gridneff

Posted on 05/10/2026 8:23:31 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

I spent last weekend crossing half the globe with Prime Minister Mark Carney, to spend a few hours with European leaders in Yerevan, the stunning Armenian capital, before crossing all the way back to Ottawa.

Mr. Carney was the first non-European leader to be invited to a meeting of the European Political Community, a grouping that brings together the 27 European Union member states with allies and neighbors, including Britain and Turkey, as well as aspiring members such as Ukraine and Albania.

This meeting happens twice a year, and it’s mostly a chance for the leaders to talk about pressing issues and harmonize their responses where they can. It plays a particularly significant role in coordinating Europe’s support to Ukraine. Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary general, was in Yerevan, and one of the few tangible things Mr. Carney announced was that Canada would contribute $270 million toward a NATO-coordinated program to provide urgently needed, U.S.-made weaponry to Ukraine.

But Mr. Carney was really there to spend face-to-face time with European Union leaders as he tries to advance Canada’s integration into the bloc’s industrial and other policies. Both in Canada and in the E.U., the idea of Canada becoming a 28th member state is popular in polls; and while it is clear that membership is not going to happen because Canada is not in Europe, Mr. Carney and European leaders seem to want to make Canada something of an honorary member.

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1 posted on 05/10/2026 8:23:31 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

China won’t be happy.


2 posted on 05/10/2026 8:24:33 AM PDT by dljordan (Yeah, I'm a Boomer and it's all my fault you whiny little bitch.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Canada would be returning to her roots, simps for Europe.


3 posted on 05/10/2026 8:24:52 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Canada and the European Union Are in Love. Where Can It Lead?”

To a worldwide Caliphate under Sharia Law?


4 posted on 05/10/2026 8:25:45 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: MinorityRepublican

We can swap Eastern Canada for Greenland, Ireland and Iceland.


5 posted on 05/10/2026 8:26:32 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MinorityRepublican

Canada is still a de facto colony of the UK


6 posted on 05/10/2026 8:27:19 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

Massively deceptive map: The US has4x the square miles of Greenland.


7 posted on 05/10/2026 8:28:18 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: MinorityRepublican

Where can it lead? To America invading Canada, that’s where.

You are quite the Europhile MinorityRepublican. Why don’t you leave for Canada?


8 posted on 05/10/2026 8:30:21 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( Neocons in love with the Ukraine War hate how long the Iran War is taking.......... )
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To: 9YearLurker

The Mercator map pisses everyone off, yet it has no political bent. It’s sole purpose is to provide straight bearing lines for ships.


9 posted on 05/10/2026 8:35:56 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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To: antidemoncrat

That is exactly what I was going to post.


10 posted on 05/10/2026 8:37:18 AM PDT by GingisK
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To: 9YearLurker

No kidding. You got to verify everything nowadays!

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/true-size-of-greenland-map-mercator-projection/


11 posted on 05/10/2026 8:37:34 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: dfwgator

After the carnages from 1914-1945 and the open migrations, both Canada and Europe are demographically similar. Canada has always been a toad for Britain. Its living standard as well as its politics despite its natural wealth will soon parallel Britain’s decline. If the Democrats come to win, America will follow this destructive path as well.


12 posted on 05/10/2026 8:39:36 AM PDT by allendale
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hey Canada

We make all your rules on the international stage.

We will not allow the EU on our border anymore than we would the Warsaw Pact.


13 posted on 05/10/2026 8:41:34 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Canada and the European Union Are in Love. Where Can It Lead?” True love is hard to find.


14 posted on 05/10/2026 8:49:02 AM PDT by kawhill (Dywedwch Wrthbym because + Add translation Welsh-English dictionary 'Tell Us')
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To: MinorityRepublican
Yerevan, the capital of Armenia with a view of Mt Ararat. A beautiful place and one of the oldest continuously inhabitated city I"d never heard about.


15 posted on 05/10/2026 8:52:42 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: PGR88

Yep, Charles is their king!


16 posted on 05/10/2026 8:54:55 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Mariner
We will not allow the EU on our border anymore than we would the Warsaw Pact.

Davos and the EU, following their 500 year colonial practice, will pursue a 'divide-and-rule' policy to maintain their dwindling power. Internally, it will be continued policy of ethnic and socialist destabilization, and globally it will be nation vs. nation.

They will attempt to use Canada against the USA, as they have used Ukraine against Russia.

17 posted on 05/10/2026 8:55:08 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican

In high school they would all be sitting at the losers table.


18 posted on 05/10/2026 9:02:43 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: aquila48

Armenia - City In The Sky


19 posted on 05/10/2026 9:02:49 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

Leftist hell. Even more than now. Islamic takeover and a poor welfare state.


20 posted on 05/10/2026 9:06:54 AM PDT by vpintheak (The left is violence.)
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