While I would welcome Canada as an associate EU member, one must be aware of the possibility that this is political theater in order to sell more Ukraine support to the Canadian public. Canada proposes to join EU funding for the Ukraine war, so both the EU and Canada follow literally Pete Hegseth's instructions from 2025 for burden sharing in NATO and finance the US proxy war:

https://www.ft.com/content/9cd8cc79-e98a-449f-a903-609b034a5...

So both the EU and Canada are compliant US vassals despite the talk.