What is an associate membership to the EU? Canada would be the first to find out.

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Associate membership currently doesn't exist, so the EU would have to create the designation if it wants Canada to join.

WASHINGTON — By opening the door this week for Canada to become the first “associate member” of the European Union, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered Prime Minister Mark Carney hope, but also an illusion.

There are many ways to take steps toward joining the world’s biggest trade bloc, or to deepen trade or political ties with it, but associate membership isn’t one of them. It simply does not exist.

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