Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will try to strengthen the commercial and security ties of Canada in the next five days with European allies who also face threats from the president of the United States, Donald Trump, about his economy and sovereignty.
Trudeau goes to Paris and Brussels from Saturday, a few days after Trump agreed to stop tariffs in Canada until March 4.
Roland Paris, former Trudeau advisor, says it is important that Canada and the European Union (EU) share notes on how to deal with Trump during this time of great uncertainty and coordinated if they unleash the punishing tariffs against them.
“No one knows what Donald Trump will then do,” said Paris, who is also a professor of international affairs at Ottawa.
“Keep crazy ideas continues. Threatens the most terrible consequences. Everyone is on the edge of their seat wondering what will do and if they will be the next goal. In that type of uncertainty environment, it is important that it is important. For the Leaders are speaking with each other. “
Trump threatens the economic war against Canada and is looking at the EU below.
The president of the United States warned on Monday that the EU tariffs could expand, hitting the 27 nations block with a 10 percent tax in all goods. He undertakes to take control of Greenland, an autonomous autonomous territory that is part of the NATO Denmark member, while pushing the 32 NATO countries to drastically increase their defense expense.
Planning of a NATO without us
Trudeau is expected to try to underpin alliances with European leaders in an effort to be less dependent on the United States, which also threatens economic coercion against Canada Bajo Trump to turn it into a state 51.
The Prime Minister’s agenda in Europe includes speaking at a high -profile artificial intelligence summit in Paris, organized by French president Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
At the summit, Trudeau can also have the opportunity to press the United States vice president, JD Vance, why a tariff war will harm both countries.
Trudeau will go to Brussels to meet EU leaders and have a person with NATO General Mark Rutte for a critical time.
“The idea of the United States that requests territory from its NATO members is a violation of everything that represents NATO,” said Steve Saideman, a political scientist who owns Paterson’s president in international matters of the University of Carleton.
“It is assumed that NATO is a defensive alliance of countries that are supposed to get along well, they do not threaten each other.”
Saideman said that Trudeau’s conversations with Rutte could include defense spending, how NATO can plan the possibility that Trump takes the United States from the Alliance and how Canada and the EU could support Ukraine in their fight against Russia if The United States stops contributing with help.
Push the free trade agreement on the finish line
But a great approach that is expected during conversations in Europe is how Canada can be protected against a commercial war.
Although the federal government tries to convince the Trump administration that its border security concerns are being taken seriously to avoid tariffs next month, it also focuses on protecting Canada in case Trump does not go back, even when diversifying the trade.
The Minister of Natural Resources and Energy, Jonathan Wilkinson, said that the trip is an opportunity for Canada to work more closely with the EU, which Trump’s aggression is carefully observing towards his northern neighbor.
“I think that many are the opinion that if the president did something like this to Canada, which historically has been the closest ally of the United States, what can be reserved for Europe?” Wilkinson said Thursday.
Canada has a free trade agreement with the EU, its second largest commercial partner behind the US, called the Comprehensive Economic and Commercial Agreement (CETA).
Trudeau signed the agreement in 2016. It was supposed to create a new mass market for Canadian products in exchange for lower prices in premium European products, such as vehicles, wine and cheese. But many of Ceta’s promised benefits have not materialized.
CETA remains without treatment in 10 EU Member States, including Belgium and France. He faces resistance to concerns about unfair competition, together with the demands of stronger environmental and consumption standards.
Experts say that now is the time for Trudeau to encourage their European counterparts to boost the free trade agreement on the finish line and ratify it completely.
“Both Canada and the EU are looking for trusted partners and there are not so many these days,” said Ruben Ziotti, director of the Center for Excellence of the European Union of Jean Monnet at the University of Dalhousie. “They need each other.”
Fundamental moment for AI
The AI Action Summit that Trudeau attends is considered the main meeting for conversations on artificial intelligence. Trudeau and Macron signed a global association in technology in 2020.
The AI could also be a central theme of the Canada Agenda at the G7 meeting that is organizing in Kananaskis, Alta., In June.
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Francis Syms, a Dean associated at the Faculty of Applied Sciences and Technology of Humber Polytechnic, said he hopes that world leaders discuss how to be more independent in a field dominated by great technology in the United States and China.
He said the summit presents a fundamental moment to put railings around AI before society depends too much on technology.
“It is really important to consider whether or not to depend on private industry and great technology,” Syms said.
“AI is a pleasure that is now a necessity to have tomorrow … if we do not begin to write the rules for AI today, then Ai will effectively tell us what to do tomorrow.”
