BREAKING: HISTORY UNFOLDS! Mark Carney takes the stage in front of the European Union and welcomes their invitation to become an associate member of the organization — powerfully rebuking Trump. The world just shifted beneath our feet... "Yesterday, President von der Leyen spoke of moving beyond the [Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement] to an alliance for the future, opening the door to Canada to become the European Union's first associate member," Carney said in Brussels. "Canada welcomes this ambition," he declared, delivering four simple words that will be etched into the history books. The era of America and Canada being the closest allies in the world is over. Canada now looks across the Atlantic Ocean for its future. "I will tell you polling shows that an overwhelming majority of Canadians support much closer ties with Europe," Carney continued. "An alliance for the future is a unique, positive approach that we will define together, building on our common strengths and based on our shared values. But let me take this opportunity to say plainly what Canada proposes..." "Canada and Europe should secure our strategic autonomy through deep cooperation in the full range of strategic capabilities, including critical minerals, defense industrial capacity, AI and compute, energy security, space and payment," he said listing off the sectors that experts have been predicting would be the crux of this arrangement. "We should move towards seamless digital trade and non-agricultural goods in a wide range of services. We should deepen our people-to-people ties, allowing our youth to work, study and live where they want on either side of the Atlantic." That final point is a geopolitical earthquake. Free movement of workers is one of the defining, most powerful rights afforded to EU members and allowing Canada to partake in anything close to that means that "associate membership" is just a hair's breadth away from full-fledged membership. "Canada can contribute LNG and hydrogen at large scale to support Europe's energy security including by developing and ​leveraging new port infrastructure in the high north and on our east coast," said Carney. "We are not fair-weather allies. ​We do not pursue zero-sum deals. Our commitment to the rule of law, and our unyielding defense of human ​dignity, individual freedom, and democracy share the same deep roots, the same unwavering dedication," he added, taking oblique shots at Trump. Under this White House, America has become far worse than a fair weather ally. We're no ally at all, as this new trade war against Canada demonstrates. We're utterly unreliable, unstable, and captive to the whims of an erratic, cognitively declining pedophile. The rule of law is in tatters with a Justice Department that is actively covering up the Epstein files and ignoring Trump's rampant corruption. We are waging an illegal pointless war overseas that proves this administration has zero respect for human life or dignity. The rest of the world looks at our country's impulsive thrashing under Trump and sees a failing state that should be treated like the plague — avoided wherever and whenever possible. Thanks to Carney's visionary leadership, Canada is refusing to let itself be drawn into America's self-destructive death spiral. He's forming new relationships and alliances to meet the coming century. "Europe and Canada are each strong. Europe and Canada are even stronger together," said Carney. Not surprisingly, Trump has already proven incapable of meeting this moment. Rather than reassessing his belligerent posture towards our northern neighbor and mending the relationship, he's threatening “serious tariffs” on the EU if they integrate Canada in a way he finds displeasing. This man has no solutions, no ideas, and no other instinct beyond lashing out. The world is leaving us behind and we have Trump to blame. Please like and share if you wish that we had a real leader like Mark Carney!