Mark Carney isn’t looking for a new trade deal with United States and it doesn’t appear he wants one.

Instead of being in Washington or courting the Americans to get tariffs removed on Canada’s steel, aluminum, autos and lumber, the prime minister is once again in Europe wining and dining leaders there. He’s also trotting out old lines about rupture, the international order and how European Canada is.

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“In many ways, we are the most European of non-European countries,” Carney said, echoing a line he first used publicly on a trip to Europe last year.

It was Davos all over again

Carney used his appearance at the European Political Community Summit in Armenia to rehash some of the themes from his speech last January at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. That included talking about drawing closer to Europe and pushing away from the U.S.

“The world is undergoing a rupture across several........

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