Canadian leader Carney lauds plans for EU alliance following US tariffs

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has returned from Europe and cast Canada as moving quickly beyond its historic reliance on the United States. His comments come after a whirlwind week in which he embraced the prospect of becoming the European Union’s first associate member. Carney says Canada and Europe had “launched a process for a new alliance.”

He also called the latest U.S. tariffs a “miscalculation” and repeated that suspending trade talks with Washington last month was the right decision. A day earlier, Carney told the European Parliament that Canada needed more markets and partners so no country could control its economy, impair its sovereignty or constrain its choices.

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