Carney pivots Canada from US reliance toward Europe

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is urgently reducing Canada's economic dependence on the United States after President Donald Trump imposed tariffs and threatened sovereignty, pivoting toward Europe as a new partner. Carney last week embraced the prospect of Canada becoming the European Union's first associate member, met with French President Emmanuel Macron, and addressed the European Parliament. He aims to double non-U.S. trade within a decade, with a Canada-EU summit scheduled for late October. The shift reverses nearly 40 years of integration since the 1989 free trade agreement, with roughly 70% of Canadian exports going to the U.S. Former Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper called the move "sad, just as equally necessary."