Mark Carney wants Canada to cosy up to European Union

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Carney has spoken regularly with several EU leaders, most notably French President Emmanuel Macron, about the possibility of letting Canadians live and work visa-free in the EU, the WSJ said.
56% : Canada and the EU are discussing ways of allowing Canada's goods, services and workers involved in strategic supply chains such as energy, AI, defence ⁠and critical minerals to move freely, thus effectively shifting the EU border, the Wall Street Journal said.
55% : Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney wants a closer relationship with the European Union and is exploring whether his country could become an "associate member" of the bloc, the Wall Street Journal is reporting.
53% : Canada and the EU are also talking about laying underwater cables, jointly constructing data centres, cloud storage and new satellite networks as well as infrastructure to ship Canadian energy to the EU, the newspaper said.
50% : The EU, which has not been flexible about membership rules in the past, is open to the idea of granting Canada a yet-to-be-created status of associate membership, the newspaper reported on Sunday, citing unnamed officials both from the EU and Canada.

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