Informed that the European Union (EU) had no interest in having Canada as an associate member, I confess I was through the five stages of grief before I reached the end of the sentence.
What middle-power fantasy had ever possessed our minds that a formal relationship with a culture that has lost its way would ever seem attractive to four Canadians out of five polled?
Buy their cheese, sell them maple syrup, by all means. But we’re already doing that.
