Is Canada’s EU associate membership a stand against Trump?
Canada and the EU look to be drawing closer together after Ursula von der Leyen made an unprecedented offer of associate membership of the European Union to Canada.
The two have pledged to work together in the face of what they see as aggression from President Trump’s America.
Trump says the membership offer is ‘laughable’. Relations between Ottawa and Washington have deteriorated sharply since Trump took office.
He's repeatedly said Canada should become America's 51st state and they are locked in a tit-for-tat trade war.
The bloc has 27 member countries, with several others in lengthy talks…
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