James Moore

There's 44 European countries, 27 of whom are members of the EU.

We have a free trade agreement that Stephen Harper negotiated that the previous government solidified and actioned.

So there's a cross-party consensus.

This is a big opportunity.

It's true.

But I do think there's a little bit of sort of myth-making about what the potential is here, in part because...

There are sort of two, there's oversimplification, but there are two broad Canadian economies, right?

There's the commodity economy that's actually been paying the bills for the past century.

Jared just articulately talked about going from two to six million barrels and how that matters.

Yeah, and a lot of Canada's prosperity has been hitched to that.

And there's also...

The, you know, one third of Canadians live in Ontario, but Ontario is 40% of the Canadian economy.

The backbone of the Ontario economy is manufacturing.

And the backbone of that is the auto sector and steel and aluminum.

And that is all related to trade with the United States.

The energy sector, agricultural exports, all that is the United States.

It's not Europe.

It's not going to go to Europe.

So while it's good to expand, I mean,

we already have a military alliance.