Poilievre Tells an Ontario Rally Canada Won't Be the EU's '28th State'
Global News reports that Opposition leader Pierre Poilievre told a rally in Ontario that Canada will never become the EU's “28th state.” His stated reasoning is not a rejection of the relationship as it exists: he points to Canada's existing free trade agreement with Europe and its close defence ties through NATO, while saying he does not support European laws.
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The catchy part is the “28th state” line, but the position underneath it is narrower: keep the trade agreement, keep the NATO ties, refuse the European rulebook.
Promising to keep the trade and defence relationship while ruling out the other side's laws is the easy half of the sentence. Whether those two halves stay separable under any future arrangement is where the argument actually lives.