alt Hacker NewsNot Canada, it is Von Der Leyen who took upon herself to use this "associate member" term and even EU countries are surprised not least because of basically whhat I explained earlier [1].
[1] https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-capitals-mark-carney-ursu...
Ah. I thought you were saying that Canada's pivots outside the US were anti trump bluster.
No idea about the EU side rhetoric, but it may not be bluster considering that Canada has huge potash and oil/gas reserves that could replace Kremlin aligned sources in the EU (and the defense deal that Canada just announced with Ukr.).