At a moment when the long-assumed bonds between Canada and the United States have frayed to a historic breaking point, Prime Minister Mark Carney has turned to Europe — not as a gesture of desperation, but as a deliberate act of sovereign self-determination. Standing before European lawmakers, Carney made the case that a formal EU-Canada alliance could serve as both anchor and alternative, a way for a middle power to preserve its independence when its nearest neighbor has become its greatest uncertainty. The appeal marks a quiet but profound rupture with decades of Canadian diplomatic traditio