A flag of the European Union outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Photo by KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images files

When announcing the new Canada-European strategic partnership in June, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is “the most European of non-European countries.” Let’s hope not. Europe’s economy is high-taxed, over-regulated and underperforming — something we should definitely not aspire to.

It’s perfectly appropriate to diversify our trade and investment to countries all round the world. We should certainly sell more energy, manufactured goods, foodstuffs and services to Europe. We should also import cheaper products and capital from Europe. These are benefits of trade. But that doesn’t mean we should become like Europe. If anything, we

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