The challenge with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s suggestion that Canada could become a European Union “associate member” is that nobody seems precisely sure what that means.
That confusion is already creating fertile ground for critics of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to diversify Canada’s trade and political partnerships away from the U.S. under President Donald Trump.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has already asserted — without evidence, since there’s no clear information from Carney or von der Leyen so far about the proposal — that such a partnership could include Canadians contributing tax dollars to the…
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