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 followed remarks made by Carney the previous Sunday, in which he revealed that Canada was developing “a unique alliance with the European Union.”
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 promptly affirmed his commitment to the proposal, delivering a strong message to the European Commission the following day. He welcomed deeper integration with Europe, stating Canada sought closer collaboration in finance, trade, AI and other technologies, defense, critical minerals, and more. Carney received a standing ovation and later clarified that he was re-aligning Canada with Europe due to the intransigence of certain nations.
“We do not seek power to dominate others,” he said. “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.”
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, requiring approval from all 27 member states. While such changes will not occur overnight, Eurocrats have a long history of advancing critical globalist agendas through legislative maneuvers. Despite decades of popular opposition to its collectivist and anti-Western program, the only true setback the EU has faced is Brexit — which was drawn out for years. All other Euroskeptic resistance has been successfully overcome, and the project of assembling a continent-wide socialist state continues.
This pattern has been observed repeatedly: regional government schemes serve as globalist tools to simplify and streamline world governance. By first corraling refractory nations into regional blocs, the globalists aim for the eventual merger of a few regional authorities rather than nearly 200 sovereign states. Other unions patterned on the EU have emerged across the globe. The African Union is among the most advanced, while the Andean Community and Mercosur operate in South America. In North America, the USMCA has been established, though NAFTA previously sought to evolve into a “North American Union.” Globalists also tried to create a larger Western Hemisphere union, the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas), which eventually collapsed.
In short, efforts to replicate the EU’s model in the Western Hemisphere have not yielded success from a globalist perspective. Thus, the new strategy involves drawing critical American nations into the EU’s operational sphere, implementing regional governance across the Americas without U.S. consent.
Earlier this year, Mercosur, the trade bloc that includes Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia as full members, along with associated countries such as Chile, Ecuador, Panama, Colombia, Guyana, Peru, and Suriname, officially applied to create a free trade zone with the European Union. This development attracted little attention due to Middle East turmoil. With Canada’s EU “associate membership” announcement, it is becoming clear that the European Union intends to poach as many countries from the Western Hemisphere as possible.
Should Canada join the European Union in any capacity, it could become a vessel for EU-style unlimited migration from the Middle East and Africa into North America — a development with profound implications for the United States. Imagine Canada flooded with the same lawless, anti-Western immigrants that have overwhelmed Europe, and consider the likelihood that many would attempt to cross the U.S. northern border.
In reality, millions of Canadians, particularly in Alberta and Saskatchewan, oppose Carney’s direction. Yet Canada, due to its small population, economy, and military (not to mention its continued loyalty to the British Crown), has long been more vulnerable to European influence than the United States. Now, it faces a very real risk of being incorporated into an EU-centered neo-imperialist sphere of influence.
This shift would make American independence significantly harder to sustain.