Pierre Poilievre says Canada will “never be the 28th state of the European Union” as Prime Minister Mark Carney pursues deeper ties with Europe amid a trade war with the United States.
Poilievre made the comments at a rally in Brantford, Ont., on Sunday, days after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she wants Canada to become the first “associate member” of the European Union.
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The Opposition leader says Canada already has a free trade agreement with Europe and close defence ties with the continent through NATO, but he doesn’t support European taxes, laws and what he calls “reckless European-style immigration” being brought to domestic shores.
Carney has said he welcomes von der Leyen’s ambitions for Canadian partnership but the nature of the new arrangement has yet to be determined.
He said he’s interested in expanding a number of ties, including opportunities for young people, and an integrated market for financial services.
The prime minister says the House of Commons will debate and vote on the partnership.
Anonymous the village idiot….I am giving you a timeout for your poor behaviour…..man child outbursts.
So this is our guy eh? Like liberals are terrible, but this guy? We talk lot about working people, this guy doesn’t even do his job. We need a better stronger conservative leader.
‘Alt headline’
Irrelevant politician declares he doesn’t understand what a state is.
To the genius below, “states” means member states, as in countries not the territorial level below countries. That was obvious.
And lets not forget that it was Conservatives under Mulroney that got us into NAFTA. They are pro international association. Don’t let a poorly written headline trip you up.
God he is such a vacuous loser, he has nothing to say besides just being against whatever the government is doing. It’s not even substantive opposition, just petulance and pandering to the worst parts of his base.
What a frigging idiot. It’s the aggressor who taunts his wannabe victim with the likes of “51st province”.
Has he even been to Europe? Get out of the way Poilievre before you hurt us all.
Pierre doesn’t even have the authority to get a credit card….let alone dictate anything else!!!
the traitors self-identify. The next generation will be about your prosecution, traitor. You can never escape your evils, though you will run, and run, and run, andlie and deny and run some more, and blame,and we will drag you out of your holes. You will never escape
Legal and Administrative RequirementsAdopting EU Law: Must adopt the entire body of existing EU laws and rules, known as the acquis.Institutional Capacity: Must have a public administration capable of enforcing and maintaining EU standards.
I wonder how much it cost.
Membership Criteria (The Copenhagen Criteria)Any European country may apply if it respects the EU’s core values. It must satisfy three core pillars:Political criteria: Stable institutions that guarantee democracy, the rule of law, human rights, and respect for and protection of minorities.Economic criteria: A functioning market economy and the capacity to handle competitive pressure and market forces within the EU.Administrative and legal criteria: The ability to adopt and effectively implement the body of EU law, known as the acquis communautaire, and support the goals of political, economic, and monetary union.Membership CostsOnce a country joins the EU, it faces direct and indirect financial commitments:EU Budget Contributions: Member states contribute based on their economic size (Gross National Income, or GNI). Contributions typically equate to roughly 1% of a member state’s GNI.Net Contributions vs. Receipts: Most wealthy member states are “net contributors” (paying more than they receive back in subsidies), while developing or smaller member states are often “net recipients” receiving structural and agricultural funds. For example, estimates for advanced economies in Europe (like Iceland) place net direct costs around 0.2% to 0.3% of GNI annually.Regulatory and Policy Costs: Adopting EU standards requires significant administrative overhauls, compliance spending, and opening domestic markets to full competition
Do your research before you jump in the clown car.
It was a conservative, who cancelled the avro arrow. Remember what side these traitors are on
Does Pierre Associate Membership is not Full Membership? If he had been elected PM we would have been sold out to Trump and well on our way to 51st Statehood.
The EU isn’t a country. How stupid can these people get
David best thinks child sex trafficking and beastiality is normal
Conservatives are brainless childish and undeserving of any respect or office. kNot even deserving of a time out. Give these losers a spanking
Anonymous the village idiot…have some coffee….so angry in the morning…tisk tisk.
Anonymous is a village idiot….and he is on a roll ! Numpty, quick, put on the steel pot on your head, you may get some push back from the normal people.
It’s a fcking Union of countries you stupid conservative psychopath, we’re not being THREATENED by the EU to become a STATE. It’s called MEMBERSHIP in a UNION you dumbass. Typical con to not get it and or be an agent of the corruption. “We will never have any credibility” you dumb pos
Can Poilievre do anything constructive? All I have ever seen him do is throw negativity on everything Canada does to get ahead and become a strong independent country! Is he so enamoured with Trump that he believes we should bow down and let him beat on us? This new trade route for our exports can only be a plus! Even when down the road the US gets a decent leader we can again resume our trade there, we will have twice the power and options! Poilievre needs to try to come up with some positive ideas of his own instead of existing only as a thorne in the side of Carney!
Pds is strong in these commenter. Must b ELBOWZOS !!
Josh u might want to grow some Grey matter !!??
Oh, look: Polievre has a new slogan. This one is sure to put him over the top.
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September 21, 2026 at 8:39 am
Carney is all about sovereignty until the EU comes calling then he’s more than ok to sell Canada. Alberta Independence can’t come soon enough.
You azzholes chortle about Carney breaking the country up but seem to think it is just fine for you to do it! Go get f*cked you useless disgusting HYPOCRITE TRAITOR!
Carney is all about sovereignty until the EU comes calling then he’s more than ok to sell Canada. Alberta Independence can’t come soon enough.
Can he just go away?
Liberals are vile and disgusting.
Liberals doubled our national debt in just 10 years to a whopping 1.4 TRILLION dollars.
2.3 million Canadians visit a foodbank each MONTH (record high)
Record high homelessness and drug addiction.
Record high cost of living and highest grocery inflation in the world.
Weakest Military in the G7 and only G20 nation in a recession.
Uncontrolled mass immigration.
And these vile, disgusting, liberal supporters ignore that and talk about Trump and PP 😂
Elbows up bozos 🤡
Pp was told in last election that he is irrelevant. Now he just needs to go away. Quit being like he said Jag was. F0kk pp.
Shut up Marilyn.
What an idiot PP is.
Worse than the Con clowns in BC and Alberta.
Put all three heads together and you have the braqins of a gerbil.
All the LPC fanboys below do not understand how democracy works. It is literally PP’s job to question the government, especially when little information is being provided by said Government on key issues such as this.
We know that you are ok with giving up democracy for the LPC, like you did when Singh propped up JT, or when parliament was shuttered for no reason other than to save the LPC from oblivion in an election in the opening days of Trump’s latest administration. You don’t give up on your democracy just because we face an external threat like Trump. Don’t be fooled yet again by the LPC. We were fooled for a decade, using abortion or gay marriage as a fear, and falsely linking our conservatives to the ones in the USA. We lost hundreds of thousands of Canadians, good hard working people who left Canada for good, and all before any tariffs were announced by Trump. We have our own economic issues that came from a decade of Trudeau, who was advised in his later years by Carney.
Canada is just like Venezuela years ago when they embraced socialism and broke trade ties with the USA. The citizens justified every move of their government even though their country was crumbling around them. Their government just kept pounding into their heads ‘things will be better’. The result a broken country with massive poverty.
Why does this useless person not just disappear. He serves no purpose at all. He’s just a joke.
to dee whatever , Canada is a socialist country by freaking Constitution , and if you don’t agree with the Canadian constitution you can move out of the country .
what a freaking weakling , never worked outside of party and want to tell people what to do , get a life pierre , maybe after you’d come up with some smart things that impact real people with real. lives / work.
What freaking moron PP is.
Nobody said anything about Canada being the 28th state,51st state,42nd state,18th state or 22nd state of no country or union!
Are you stupid,or you just dumb???
Jeeeeez….🙄
It is almost sad watching PP, but also funny. Pathetic loser.
Also polls show 4 out of 5 Canadians support closer integration with the EU.
-The Economist
It just reinforces that PPHead is really just a belligerent blowhard who isn’t reading the room/audience.
You’re talking about the huge really at a high school gym? That really? It wasn’t even filled to capacity.
To go along with Canada isn’t going to join the EU to begin with.
Just now slogan politicking.
Ya,you tell him ,Anonymous !!!
Hey Mr Blackface Years, I agree with Anonymous and I know Anonymous agrees with Me when I say not only was Justin Trudeau our first Black, Brown, Cuban, Indian,Gender Fluid Prime Minister, he was also the best P.M. we ever had and he looked incredibly delicious after a day at the Spa getting a facial and eyebrow pluck.
@ The Blackface Years. When shoe polish and bananas were Wokee. – What’s absurd is the supporters of the party that raised Scheer, O’Toole and Poilievre against Trudeau complaining that the public chose Trudeau over those hollow duds.
Liberals complaining about Poilievre after they are the ones who kept Canada’s Pool Boy P.M. Trudeau in power for 10 years.The absurdity of such a stunt is mind boggling.
Only a socialist would agree to be an associate member then find out what it means. To funny.
After all the media yap and elbows up bupkus over the 51st state comments from the US. The speeches stating Canadian sovereignty is not up for discussion. After saying the day before that Canada is not wanting to join the EU. There is Carney on bent knee smoozing in the EU parliament wanting to make Canada a colony (again) of Europe. Can the man ever stop with the bull and other lies.
There is something seriously wrong with this commenting section. Maybe less AI and more human programmers.
Carney drools over an integrated financial system with Europe. Easier to move those Canadian tax dollars to the new playground of the Liberal party of Canada.
Carney drools over an integrated financial system with Europe. So much easier to move those Canadian tax dollars into Europe. New play ground of the socialist Liberal party.
Groovy Aardvark shut up .elbows up clown
Just once I would like to see some Carney-basher describe what they would do differently, other than bend over for the US. Instead, all we get are baseless conspiracy theories about Carney secretly pushing an agenda for Brookfield or some other foreign interest. Yes, there are a lot of things to fix in Canada, particularly on the productivity side, and those are not going to be fixed overnight by anyone or any party. But at least Carney has the country moving in the right direction, finally. Diversifying trade is a no-brainer, and should have been done even if the US was not a complete basket case. unlocking our natural resource potential is also an obvious step forward. I don’t know what conservatives are watching, but what I see is a guy trying to drive Canada’s economy forward because he actually cares about the country, and has the vision, expertise and credibility to do it. I would really like to know what it is that conservatives so dislike about what Carney is doing, other than not caving to Trump.
It’s funny; conservatives have been whining for years that Canada has too many regulations blocking resource extraction… but now Carney comes along and tries to cut through a lot of that and fast-track various initiatives and pass enabling legislation, and conservatives call him a dictator?!?
Pierre Poilievre is not telling the Truth. President Von der Leyen offered Canada to be the 1st Associate Member with parameters not yet defined. The definition of these parameters will be negotiated later on.
Is Pierre Poilievre lying to Conservatives, like Trump does?
Pollievre isn’t winning any brownie points from anyone with a brain. You light as well say ‘Canada will never be the 12th state of ASEAN’ or ‘Canada will never be the 7th member of MERCOSUR’.
No one ever said anything about being a state of the EU… the inflammatory remarks are just plain dumb.
Pierre they have strong immigration policy but it’s easier for immigrants to cross borders on land in Europe then it’s through ocean (so Canada is safe).
Also Euro is more stronger currency than Canadian dollar and Canadians when travelling to Europe are hit hard by our low worthless Canadian dollar, so work on making stronger Canadian dollar.
So much fear mongering.. you people sound like Trump fans!!
I can’t wait until the liberals join forces with Europe. Cameras on every street, no protests because of AI facial-recognition, dystopian ghettos that used to be our cities and suburbs, curfews, brutal police and military force used against disarmed citizens, and a government that does whatever makes politicians and their lobbyists richer under the guise of democracy.
What a coincidence. Because Poilievre will never be Prime Minister of Canada, either.
Carney sacks dck, like his voters
Canada is puppy of USA..
Canada’s today is due to USA. Canada is useless without USA.
Now Immigrants taking over Canada and USA haha.. Invite more immigrants please…
Let’s be honest no one cares about what Mr PP thinks or is saying about this.
He’s losing members of his own party by the day… clearly he’s not fit to decide anything for the country when his own party won’t even follow him into a building .
Canada has a lot to benefit from partnering with the EU and advancing our society. Whether or not it will happen I’m not sure but atleast Carney is trying different options to be Canada strong
You can always trust Pierre to argue against something no one ever proposed. If at first you don’t succeed, fabricate a controversy. It’s pathetically dishonest and reeks of desperation. Canadians deserve more from a Leader of the Opposition.
Buddy below wrote “Imagine the brain trust workshopping how to make up a slogan without having to propose a policy.”
You mean like Elbows Up?
Created right after 106,000 Canadians left our shores for good in 2024, setting a 57 year record.
Right after our democracy was highjacked by a sociopath PM who had an agreement with the NDP to avoid non confidence votes.
Right after our parliament was prorouged at the worst absolute time, leaving no one to negotiate with Trump.
Yes, indeed well done.
Why is Polievre making stuff up? No one said Canada was to be a full member, required to pay EU taxes or implement EU regulations. Right now it appears our Prime Minister is merely trying to get the EU to consider Canada as a serious partner in a mutually beneficial expansion of trade, investment and human capital. Trying to warp it into something similar to the problem we created by going all in on US integration over the past 40 years is risible.
Imagine the brain trust workshopping how to make up a slogan without having to propose a policy. Well done.
Pp really is…irrelevant.
Frank, no worries there as the conservatives would never suggest to join the EU, there is no need to do so if all we want is for them to invest here. Although one has to wonder if they dont already invest here more because they eschew investment into our top exports products
He speaks the truth, here here
No one said we were PP! Get with the program Mr. Irrelevant.
Canadians are a special breed.
It is literally PP’s job to challenge the ruling party. Hence the opposition designation. A dumb idea unchallenged ensures a dumb idea put into action.
P.S. anyone who threatens the Canadian Propanda machine that is CBC will never be PM. CBC is a national treasure for every boomer in the country.
Mr Irrelevant making noise again, lol!
Why is PP wearing orange makeup mimicking his hero Trump?
RJ with the win.
90 percent of my economic issues predate the 2nd Trump administration. And we all know that this is similar for the rest of you. There is a reason why 106,000 Canadians left Canada for good in 2024. The Lost Liberal Decade
Love how Poilievre triggers some of you. He’s gotten more accomplished as the leader of the opposition than Carney has as the PM so far. Pretty much forced the reversal of most of the Trudeau Liberal’s policy by relentlessly pointing out how ridiculous it was. He’s been right on all the major issues Canada has faced over the last decade. Maybe one day we’ll elect the guy who was right instead of those who insist on being wrong before they’re led by their nose to the truth, but it’s Canada, and as they say, you get the government you deserve. Thankfully for Canada though Poilievre has been there the lead the Liberals to the truth.
All of you that are so against PP are the same people that have TDS . You will get a very rough awakening. Your king Carney is brainwashing you and you don’t realize it. Good look
PP will never be prime minister of Canada, I can tell you that for sure.
Well, it’s probably a good thing that he sticks around so Conservatives won’t get voted in federally.
I want to surrender to the strong leader. Even though i argued against Trump. I just want a communist strong leader. Dear leader. Thy name is Carney.
PP really just needs to go away. He’s just a bunch of irritating noise, making up lies about Carney and the Liberals just so he can complain about what they are (not really) doing. Nobody is talking about Canada becoming an EU member – not Carney, not the Liberals, not the EU – yet PP’s only move is to fabricate a boogeyman just so he can pretend he is the only leader that can fight it. He offers nothing more than lies, childish nicknames and temper tantrums. Enough with that clown already.
No one is suggesting we would be. Some people are never happy even when politicians do what they are asked. If it was PP doing these same things they would be going on about how great it is. We can’t live in the past nor can we stay put. We must change, adapt and grow
Poilieve is done being the leader of the official opposition and the Conservatives due to the destruction caused by Smith and the separatists and the media created association that the Conservatives are MAGA north and again caused by Smith going to visit Trump. Most of Canada now associates Conservatives as Separatists and the far right with associating them to the President.
Carney the dictator will now push his agenda through the House of Commons by the back room deals he did to get MP’s to cross the floor and cancelling any deal with the USA so he could create panic so the Liberals could win the three by-elections and get the majority he wanted to dictate his vision to Canada and not have to answer to anyone in Parliament
Carney is being handled by Foreign interests and is using Canada to create his NEW WORLD ORDER that he was advising Trudeau with.
There was no business case as that is what he guided Trudeau to say then flips to the opposite now.
Just sign a few more MOU’s Prime Minister Carney and keep the sheep believing you are the great answer to lowering Canadians cost of living by signing all the MOU’s while you fly all over the world on the Canadian taxpayers dime making “DEALS” to help Canadians lower those Costs of Living that is getting worse.
Sandy, “listen to what’s being proposed” is the past tense. Nothing was made public yet. Same as for thr deal with the USA that Carney walked away from.
Besides that point, Carney has abysmal attendance at Parliament. We don’t want to wait until he finally shows up and graces us with his presence.
Ben there is nothing wrong about it. We didn’t have the capacity because Trudeau refused to tap into our resource sector, and Carney advised him based off of Carney’s well established pro carbon “pricing” mantra. Besides that, the LPC has since done a complete 180 and now wants to invest in LPG, and Carney himself visited Germany on our dime flogging the same deal he turned down a few years ago.
These are historic facts from less than a handful of years ago. Even you Ben are not that stooooopid to have forgotten facts from 2023.
What an idiot
That sounds familiar. PP is making up lies just like his idol Trump. PP likes Canada to weak, so easy pickings for the Orange dictator.
Carney believes he’s a monarch. He’s emboldened by TDS infection sycophants but he will find out that the lawfare heading his way: here and in the EU will grind his ambitions into dist
Even sovereignty association needs a public vote. If carney has the house ratify, every single province should file suit. Any surrendering of regulation to the EU is likely infringe on provincial jurisdiction. The central planner in Ottawa hasn’t figured out his power is limited
what is wrong with Polly Pepper? All I hear is criticism, where is the constructive idea ? Canada does not need an internal destroyer. he is not in touch with today’s reality. he is focused on what has worked to keep him from the real world. he has become a anachronism.
STEP DOWN POLLY!!
I’m pretty sure Carney agrees. This is an example of a “position” that will continue to bring shame to the Conservative Partyunder this leader.
Pierre will never PM. Hes irrelevant.
@Not Ben. Wrong. We did not have enough capacity to supply Germany and Japan because there was no private sector partner to increase capacity. Do you want the federal government to spend taxpayer money to increase capacity?
Stick to the paper route PP, you’re a fool.
@not sandy. The proposal regarding the EU is to be brought up in the house of commons when parliament returns from summer break That is what I was referring to when I stated listen to what’s being proposed .
Yes Davie, Pierre has never said anything constructive.
That is why the ending the consumer carbon tax, abandoning an increase in the capital gains tax, postponing Trudeau’s electric vehicle mandate, giving a tax break to the middle class and reducing the size of the public service are all Liberal policies that originated with Poilievre.
Only an idiot would think that Canada could become an EU state.
Pierre Poilievre has never said anything constructive, he just speaks for the sake of it. Bring something to the masses, propose something, please grow up.
Someone said below Poilievre is a double agent for the Liberals. That’s the only logical explanation for him doing this!
Ben,
PP didn’t speak against closer ties with the EU, you clown.
It was the conservatives that wanted to open our resource sector to Europe. It was Carney and Trudeau that turned away Germany and Japaan from buying our LNG, saying there “was no business case” for it.
Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union specifically limits membership to countries in Europe. Poilievre is shouting about the impossible! It’s like he’s promising, “Elephants will never fly!” or, “I will be Prime Minister one day”
106k people officially emigrated from Canada in 2024 breaking a 57 year record. That was before Trump took office. That record was broken again the following year with 120k leaving Canada.
All thanks to the Lost Liberal Decade.
We have our own issues that we need to address. We could have addressed then openly in parliament when the LPC finally turned on Trudeau, but he shut down parliament and ran away instead of calling an election.
Pandering to the far right and his mentor, Trump. 80% of Canadians want closer ties to the EU as per a recent poll. PP is disgraceful, and will lose more centrist voters.
Just a matter of time before ottawa is nuked by Russia or USA
Pp is a sack of potatoes!
He just says the opposite. A guy buying drinks on the bar.
Pierre has the same leverage and clout as any of us on this chat. In fact he’s probably on here now?!
Carney has no problem giving up Sovereignty to the EU, but a problem if it is the USA. Total hypocrisy.
Carney cant get a deal done with the USA so now Carney gets the kneeepads out and looking for something with the EU.
The EU proposal is a joke for many reasons – mostly it is just another MOU without teeth. Also not surprising from our Euro PM. I agree with Pollievre, Canada will never be part of the EU
According to an Abacus poll, Quebecers are 83% for, 6% against, 11% unsure of closer ties to the EU. You can not win a federal election in Canada without winning a significant number of seats in Quebec.
Poilievre with the political instincts that make him an ideal Conservative leader for the Liberals – double agent bad.
Hey Sandy, what can we listen to? There is no proposal, and there are no published facts. Same with the facts of the latest trade deal negotiations with the USA. Publish the details!
More taxes…… what a great idea! Why not screw Canadians over even more
Poilievre wants to create drama. He’s the only person running his mouth about being the 28th state of the EU. Maybe listen to what is being proposed first before you go running around like the town crier. Maybe be part of the solution instead of being part of the problem. The guy has nothing positive to say about anything proposed.
We need closer ties with allies now that the USA is definitely out of the picture!
Gord, the same loss of seats and retiring MPs happened to the Libs right before the election. Had the election happened when it should have happened in 2024 if not for Singh, then we would be having a whole different conversation right now. Instead Trudeau prorouged parliament to save the LPC, and at the worst time possible as the Trump administration was taking office. We had no one speaking to the USA but Doug Ford as head of the association of premiers. And if PP was so bad then why were the first three policy initiatives announced by candidate Carney in early 2025 completely lifted from Polliviere? Carbon Tax, cancelation of planned increased in Capital Gains, and GST on homes under 1m.
“Pierre Poilievre says Canada will “never be the 28th state of the European Union”.
So what? PP’s party has lost seats in the last election and has had members ‘cross the floor’. His leadership is destroying the Conservative party, and his opinion is meaningless. GOOD!
Is he really that clueless? No wonder he’ll never be PM.