But Carney’s own wish list on Thursday was nevertheless ambitious. It included deep cooperation across the full range of strategic capabilities, including critical minerals and their processing, defense industrial capacity, artificial intelligence and computing power, energy security, space exploration, and payment systems. To that list he added seamless digital trade in nonagricultural goods and a wide range of services, including an integrated market for financial services. He also hoped for far greater freedom for young Canadians and Europeans to live, work, and study on either side of the Atlantic, including Canadian membership in the next generation of Horizon and Erasmus+, the EU’s well-known student exchange program. The European Parliament’s Metsola, for her part, has pointed to common regulation on issues that like-minded democratic countries care about, including social media and the protection of minors.
