Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to strengthen the Canadian trade and security relationships in the next five days, with European allies also exposed to threats from US President Donald Trump to their economy and sovereignty.
Trudeau will go to Paris and Brussels from Saturday – just a few days after Trump agreed to pause the tariffs in Canada by March 4.
Roland Paris, a former consultant of Trudeau, says that it is important for Canada and the European Union (EU) to share notes about how to deal with Trump’s great uncertainty during this time, and coordinate when he punishes tariffs against them .
“Nobody knows what Donald Trump will do next,” said Paris, who is also a professor of international affairs at the University of Ottawa.
“He keeps throwing out crazy ideas. He threatens the worst consequences. Everyone is on the edge of their seat and wonders what they will do and whether they will be the next goal. In this kind of uncertainty it is important that it is important Is the leaders talk to each other.
Trump threatens the economic war against Canada and next puts the EU in sight.
The US President warned on Monday that he could expand the EU tariffs and, with a delivery of 10 percent, met the 27-nation block. He undertakes to take control of Greenland-a self-administered, autonomous territory, which is part of the NATO member Denmark and to make all 32 NATO countries dramatically increase their defense spending.
Planning a NATO without us
Trudeau is expected to support alliances with European leaders in order to become less dependent on the United States, which also threatens the economic constraint against Canada under Trump in order to make it a 51st state.
The prime minister’s agenda in Europe includes speaking at a top -class summit for artificial secret services in Paris, which was organized jointly by French President Emmanuel Macron and the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
At the summit, Trudeau may also have the opportunity to urge us Vice President JD Vance why a tariff war will violate both countries.
Trudeau will then travel to Brussels to meet the EU leaders and to have a one-on-one talks with NATO general secretary during a critical period.
“The whole idea that the United States ask for their NATO members for territory is a violation of everything that NATO stands for,” said Steve Saideman, a political scientist who holds the Paterson chairman for international affairs at Carleton University .
“NATO is said to be a defensive alliance of countries that get together and do not threaten each other.”
Saideman said that Trudeau’s talks with Rutte could include defense spending on how NATO can plan the possibility that Trump pulls the United States out of the alliance and how Canada and the EU could support Ukraine in its struggle against Russia if the USA stopped helping to help help .
Leave the free trade agreement via the finish line
A big focus in the talks in Europe, however, is how Canada can protect itself from a trade war.
While the federal government is trying to convince the Trump administration, it takes its border security concerns seriously to avoid tariffs next month.
Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Natural Resources and Energy Minister, said that the trip was a chance for Canada to work closer together with the EU, which carefully observed Trump’s aggression towards its northern neighbor.
“I think many believe that if the president would do something like this to Canada, which historically was the closest ally of the United States, what is in stock for Europe?” Wilkinson said on Thursday.
Canada has referred to a free trade agreement with the EU’s second largest trading partner behind the USA-SAS comprehensive economic and trade agreements (CETA).
Trudeau signed the deal in 2016. It was supposed to create a massive new new Canadian products in exchange for lower prices for premium -European goods such as vehicles, wine and cheese. However, many of the promised advantages of Ceta have not come about.
Ceta is not injured in 10 EU member states, including Belgium and France. It is about resistance about concerns about unfair competition and the demands for stronger environmental and consumer standards.
Experts say now Trudeau is the time to encourage his European colleagues to exceed the free trade agreement via the finish line and to fully ratify them.
“Both Canada and the EU are looking for trustworthy partners and there are not so many nearby these days,” said Ruben Zaiotti, director of the Excellence Center for Jean Monnet European Union at Dalhousie University. “You need each other.”
Crucial moment for AI
The AI Action Summit Trudeau is considered the most important meeting for conversations about artificial intelligence. Trudeau and Macron signed a global partnership for technology in 2020.
AI could also be a central theme of the Canada’s agenda on the G7 meeting, which is in Kananaskis in June.
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Francis Syms, Associate Dean at the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology in Humber Polytechnic, expects the world leaders to discuss the world as they can become more independent in an area dominated by Big Tech in the USA and China.
He said the summit had a crucial moment to store the AI before society is excessively dependent on technology.
“It is really important to consider whether it is okay to be dependent on the private industry and the Big Tech,” said Syms.
“AI is now a nice that is now a must, tomorrow a must. If we do not start writing the rules for AI today, Ai will effectively tell us what to do tomorrow.”
