Canada to the EU?

With the USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement) now on life support, thanks to the increasingly rancorous trade war between the United States and Canada, it appears that Canada’s globalist leadership, helmed by Prime Minister Mark Carney, is looking at a new option for extending the European multilateral and globalist system to North America.

On Wednesday, September 16, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, delivering the EU’s “state of the union” address (with Carney in attendance), announced a proposal for Canada to become the EU’s first-ever “associate member.” The announcement came on the heels of remarks made the previous Sunday by Carney, in which he revealed that Canada was developing “a unique alliance with the European Union.” The media, of course, is portraying all of this as U.S. President Donald Trump’s fault, with The New York Times proclaiming, “Trump Wanted Canada as the 51st State. He Ended Up Pushing It Toward the European Union.”

Carney: A Globalists’ Globalist

While there may be a little truth to that, it is also a fact that Carney is a globalists’ globalist, dedicated to Canadian integration with the “global order” by any means possible. He is one of the most credentialed central bankers on the planet, having served as governor of both the Bank of England and the Bank of Canada (the only person ever to have done so). On his first trip abroad as prime minister, Carney told an audience in Paris last year that Canada was “the most European of non-European countries.” And in a keynote speech in Davos earlier this year, he decried the “rupture in the world order” and urged middle powers to pick up the slack and “build a new order.”

It is clear from last year’s Canadian elections that Mark Carney is the globalists’ handpicked agent to act as a foil for Trump’s America First, anti-globalist actions. With this week’s bombshell EU announcement, their investment in Carney appears to be paying off handsomely. While it isn’t entirely clear what an “associate membership” in the EU would entail, or how it would be brought about, Carney lost no time affirming his commitment to the proposal, delivering a stemwinder to the European Commission the following day in which he welcomed deeper integration with Europe. Canada, he told the Europeans, sought closer integration in finance, trade, AI and other tech, defense, critical minerals, and more. He received a standing ovation, and later clarified to reporters that he was re-aligning Canada with Europe because of the intransigence of, well, other countries:

We do not seek power to dominate others. On the contrary, we are pursuing resilience so that no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law.

Just the First “Associate Member”?

No sooner had Carney committed Canada to EU associate membership than European Parliament President Roberta Metsola announced that Australia and New Zealand would also be welcome to pursue deeper affiliation with the EU.

Since there is currently no legal mechanism for “associate membership,” the EU would have to modify its bylaws, which would require the approval of all 27 member states. While such an action will not happen overnight, Eurocrats have a long track record of getting their way, by hook or by crook, when a critical globalist agenda item is at stake. So far, despite decades of popular opposition to its obvious collectivist and anti-West program, the only true setback the EU has suffered is Brexit — and that was drawn out for many years. All other Euroskeptic intransigence has been successfully steamrolled, and the project of assembling a Continent-wide socialist state has continued to advance.

Regional Blocs Easier to Assimilate

As we have reported many times in The New American, regional government schemes are a globalist tool for simplifying and streamlining the project of world government. First corral the refractory nations of the world into regional government blocs, goes the globalist logic, and the consummation of world government becomes a straightforward merger of a few regional authorities rather than nearly 200 sovereign states. To this end, other such unions, patterned on the European Union, have been created and are in various stages of development. The African Union is probably the most advanced, but there are also the Andean Community and Mercosur blocs in South America, and of course the USMCA in North America. Prior to the USMCA, NAFTA sought to grow into a “North American Union,” even as globalists tried to bring about a larger Western Hemispheric union, the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas), which eventually fell apart.

In short, efforts to replicate the EU in the Western Hemisphere have not been successful (from a globalist perspective), so the new tack appears to be trying to draw critical American countries into the EU web from overseas.

Earlier this year, Mercosur, the trade bloc that includes full members Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia, as well as associated countries Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname, officially applied to create a free trade zone with the European Union, a momentous piece of news that attracted little attention thanks to the drama in the Middle East. With the announcement of Canada’s EU “associate membership,” it is becoming clear that the European Union intends to poach as many countries as it can from the Western Hemisphere, drawing them into its operational sphere as a means of implementing regional governance in the Americas with or without U.S. consent.

Unlimited Immigration to North America?

And of course, should Canada join the European Union in any capacity, it might become a vessel for EU-style unlimited migration from the Middle East and Africa into North America, a development that would be enormously consequential for the United States. Imagine Canada flooded with the same types of lawless, anti-West immigrants that have overwhelmed Europe, and consider the likelihood that many of them would then attempt to enter the United States across our largely unguarded northern border.

Subverting the Will of the People

As for ordinary Canadians, a BBC article with carefully curated man-on-the-street interviews, mostly from the urban Toronto area, would have us believe that Canadians in general are giddy with anticipation at the prospect of being able to live and work in Europe visa-free. Canadians, the article suggests, are tired of what they view as a forced relationship with the United States, to the detriment of Europeans with whom they have a lot more in common.

In reality, millions of Canadians, especially in Alberta and Saskatchewan, are opposed to the direction that Carney and the Left are taking their country. But Canada, always captive to the globalists because of its small population, economy, and military (not to mention its continued loyalty to the British crown), has always been much more vulnerable to European blandishments than the United States, and is now in very real danger of being incorporated into a sort of EU-centered neo-imperialist sphere of influence.

Such an outcome would make American independence more difficult to sustain.

Which is, of course, precisely the point.