The economic outlook isn’t rosy.

The EU isn’t going to be a solution. They are salivating at Canada’s resources. After all, they lost Africa who decided not to be exploited anymore.

This puts EU’s obsession with Russia into perspective: if they can co-opt Russia, they have natural resources to exploit. The same goes for Serbia.

The EU doesn’t care about the people in Ukraine. That’s more than plain. Ukraine, for all intents and purposes, is alone in this game of global chess. The sooner they come to grips with it, the sooner they can craft their own solution, and there is a solution, but it involves outwitting rather than outfighting or outspending.

The EU also doesn’t care about Vladimir Putin. He is an obstacle to them, not a villain in the traditional sense that the middle-class can comprehend. Russia is a vast country filled with natural resources and he is seen as standing in the way.

But back to Canada.

For all its natural resources that it can provide on a global scale, it shouldn’t be in debt or struggling, but it is.

There is zero need to join the EU to trade with them. That’s not a prerequisite.

Canada is having a temporary falling out with the US; more specifically, with an outlier lame duck president who is about to lose the House and the Senate in four days time. Even he knows it. Canada has a lot more to gain by approaching the Democrats and making a deal after the elections than by breaking a long-term relationship and joining an unknown dynamic.

Newly-minted Quebec premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who has a minority, no mandate and is in no place to throw temper tantrums, is throwing his non-existent weight around already wanting a paper crown and threatening to leave Canada, thinking that the province wouldn’t get carved up. Quebec is divisible, all right.

Joining the EU is not a strategy. It is desperation. It should be no surprise that a meeting is taking place before the US mid-terms because if they wait until after, the so-called threat has been diminished.

But tariffs and gas prices are not the reason why Canada is struggling. It is had planned better, the economy would have been much stronger. You can’t have most of your industries depend on government subsidies. You can’t have so many public sector workers pulling in six figure pay checks, especially when you have natural resources and a hungry market for them.

Something has gone wrong, and until that problem is confronted and addressed, it doesn’t matter whose clubhouse you climb into: you won’t see your fortunes rise because the rot is still there.