Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to strengthen Canada’s trade and security ties over the next five days with European allies also facing threats from U.S. President Donald Trump over their economy and sovereignty.
Trudeau is heading to Paris and Brussels starting Saturday — just days after Trump agreed to pause tariffs on Canada until March 4.
Roland Paris, a former adviser to Trudeau, says it’s important for Canada and the European Union (EU) to share notes about how to deal with Trump during this time of great uncertainty and co-ordinate if he does unleash punishing tariffs against them.
We’ll see how it will go. The EU is made up of onion layers, each more integrated. There should be one which shouldn’t take too much time. The current tailored CETA agreement is:
● it eliminates duties on 99% of all tariff lines, of which 98% were scrapped when it provisionally entered into force;
● it defends the Geographical Indications, and;
● it improves and secures companies’ access to the services market.
And, security wise, we ( EU &Canada) are also NATO allies already. Canada has also a lot of goodwill, specially in Northern Europe
Edited: sorry first link was EU link, edited to more neutral wiki)