Canada is the most European from non -European countries – said the new Prime Minister Canada, who visited London and Paris in the first week of office. In “Facts about the world” TVN24 BIS former provinces of the province Albert Thomas Lukaszuk was asked about Canada's relations with the USA and Europe. In his opinion, Canada will develop cooperation with Europe, while trying to normalize relations with the USA. Donald Trump imposes duties on Canadian goods and loudly says that he would like Canada to become part of the USA.
For several weeks, Canada relations with the United States have been very tense. There were even voices to make Canada join the European Union.
– Certainly, Canada has many common values ​​with European Union countries and this connects not only with our modern culture now, but also with the history of Canada. We are a product in a total of Great Britain and France, colonization, we maintained French as the second language, and in contrast to the United States, this approximation to Europe is noticeable – emphasizes Thomas Lukaszuk, Canadian politician of Polish origin, former deputy prime minister of the province of Albert.
According to the guest “Facts about the world” TVN24 BIS at the moment “Canada needs Europe and Europe needs Canada.” – We have a lot to offer each other. (…) Canada is the main source of raw materials. We are very rich in natural raw materials, so these are materials that are very much needed in Europe. Canada is also a G7 member state, so we have a relatively strong economy, but also from the point of view of defense. It seems to me that cooperation between individual European Union countries and as a general with Canada would be helpful in this new world, in these new realities in which we are today – indicates Thomas Lukaszuk.
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Lukaszuk: At the beginning it was perceived as a distasteful joke
The Canadian politician of Polish origin also referred to the Canada plan to include in the EU military initiative so that European systems are produced, produced in Canadian industrial plants. In his opinion, Canada should develop such cooperation regardless of NATO membership.
Thomas Lukaszuk said that now Canada's relations with the United States are “very difficult to determine”, while noting that the state of Donald Trump had “true friendship” before the presidency of Donald Trump.
– In Canada there is a feeling of betrayal, disappointment, which can not really be logically justified in any way. President Trump does not conduct diplomacy, he approaches international relations from a business point of view in very much, which I would describe, a predatory way. So we live completely in other realities and in Canada there has been such an awakening process, and Canadians are beginning to realize that despite the fact that we have to work all the time to normalize relationships with the United States, we also need to find new friends in the world. Europe is our best, natural friend – he said.
The guest of “Facts about the world” TVN24 Bis was also asked how the idea of ​​Donald Trump was received in his country about the 51st American state. – At the beginning it was perceived as such, I would say, a tasteless joke, a joke, but now we approach it seriously, I would say, because it is simply a joke out of place. This is the rhetoric of the leader of the country that should never take place – he replied.
“President Trump does not conduct diplomacy, he approaches international relations from a business point of view”Facts about the world of tvn24 bis
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