Don’t worry about the details of the Canada-EU deal – it’s Europe, man, and the vibes are great.

That may as well have been Prime Minister Mark Carney’s answer to every question seeking greater detail on where this “Alliance for the Future” or “Associate Membership” proposal is headed.

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We can’t even agree on the name of this thing!

After more than a month of Carney refuting the associate member title, even saying this week that the “nomenclature” doesn’t matter, he then used the term throughout the summit. Even in the final documents, both Alliance for the Future and associate member were used, along with a bunch of vague promises about what might happen one day.

For the average Canadian, the most important thing is that nothing in your life changes today.

In fact, despite Carney saying they are looking to wrap this deal up fairly quickly, nothing will change in the daily lives of Canadians for some time. What we have after months of courting and two days of speed dating in Montreal are promises to study issues, expressions of intent........

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