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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Canadians rebuffing Trump’s advances to become his 51st state, yet keen to jump into the arms of the European Union, prove one thing: they're overwhelmingly oblivious to the reality of European globalist supranational governance. Take it from someone born and raised in Canada who has worked in the EU for 17 years.

About 60 percent of Canadians say they’d be open to their country becoming full-fledged members of the European Union, according to a recent Nanos poll. Compare that to Leger’s finding that just 13 percent would take Trump up on his offer to annex the northern neighbor.

About the only difference between the two propositions is that one is overtly drooling over Canada’s assets, while the other is playing it cool and respectful. The EU can even relate, having had its own problems with Trump. Canadians are letting their guard down, convinced they’ve found a soul mate in this scary new world. But they risk waking up one day after making it official to discover they’ve hopped into bed with a smooth-talking control freak.

The EU is all over Canada right now like a golden retriever that just spotted someone with snacks. Surely it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that Canada is sitting on the energy equivalent of a full treat jar. No, it must be the common values that have them suddenly humping Canada’s leg, and not at all because they heard a kibble bag crinkle from across the Atlantic while they’re desperate for fuel.

And that desperation is the result of the EU careening from crisis to crisis with no real strategy beyond the ideological lip service du jour. They demonized and attacked nuclear power, which had been largely responsible for their energy sovereignty (thank you, former French President Charles De Gaulle), only to later reverse course and declare it both green and necessary. They did the same with cheap Russian fuel — minus the volte-face. No need yet, since they’ve been importing Russian fuel on the down-low through third countries, laundering the identity of Putin’s authoritarian molecules through places like India, Turkey and China before it comes ashore in Europe. Now they’re also stuck with an overdependence on US liquified natural gas as a much pricier supplier, and beholden to Trump’s daily whims, which now also include potentially blocking their fuel supply through the Strait of Hormuz in his and Israel's war on Iran.

So of course the EU is looking to Canada. “European buyers hold talks to ship Canadian LNG via Panama Canal to diversify supply,” Reuters recently reported. Canada has also been supplying the EU with fuel through Asia. And last year, the bloc’s top economic engine, Germany, secured a deal for Canada’s critical minerals and energy.

They sure seem to love Canadian energy now that they need it. But it wasn’t long ago that Brussels was slamming Canada for its fuel production emissions and even trying to regulate it on environmental grounds, actively discouraging imports into Europe.

Imagine if Canada had been straitjacketed by these regulations against its own industry as a full-fledged EU member.

The same goes for Canadian farmers, who would have to abide by EU climate-related regulations requiring a mountain of paperwork that must match images taken with EU Copernicus satellites — effectively spying on their cows to make sure there isn’t any Earth-shattering excessive farting and pooping. The EU imposed strict limits on European farmers for the nitrogen produced by cow waste, enforced by Dutch courts and resulting in state-backed farm buyouts in the Netherlands. We’re talking about a country that’s one of the top global suppliers of meat, proving again that the EU doesn’t bat an eye about prioritizing ideology over its own economic survival.

The EU also insists on dictating migration and asylum rules for its member states. Influxes that are often the result of its own globalist neocon foreign policy, over which member states have increasingly little say. The most recent push from “Queen” Ursula von der Leyen, the unelected president of the European Commission bureaucracy that concocts policy to ram down the throats of citizens in 28 countries, is to ditch the EU's veto system for foreign affairs matters — a mechanism that has at least allowed a country to stall or stop a lunatic move in favor of ideological diversity and debate. But that makes reaction too slow, EU brass argues, apparently eager to speed up the pace at which they ram into brick walls.

Think Brussels would leave a member state alone to do its own thing? Just ask the latest newly elected prime minister of Hungary, whose victory they celebrated — right before handing him a laundry list of 27 points they want implemented.

Britain formally bailed out of the EU in 2020, reclaiming its full sovereignty. Well, sort of. It’s like the Eagles’ Hotel California: you can check out, but you can never leave. Some of the EU regulations and legislation that overrode the UK’s theoretically supreme parliamentary sovereignty — and were a primary impetus for Brexit — have now been carried over into British law as so-called “retained EU law,” still sticking around post-purge like legislative herpes.

It’s not all bad, though. The EU did recently invent soda caps tethered to their bottles so they don’t get lost in your couch cushions, has insisted that Apple let consumers replace their phone batteries themselves and does a solid job regulating what goes into food so you don’t end up wondering why your behind is inexplicably starting to look like it risks encroaching on neighboring ZIP codes.

But Canada doesn’t have to move in with Brussels to enjoy the occasional date. Same goes for its relationship with the U.S. You can keep things casual without handing over a key, a toothbrush and your sovereignty. The more countries that figure that out — insisting on staying sovereign and independent — the better off the average person is. Thankfully, geography is doing some heavy lifting here: Canada isn’t actually in Europe, which ultimately complicates any plans to shack up under current EU treaty rules. Compared to Trump, Canadians may see the EU as Mr. Right — for right now — but it’s mostly a rebound fantasy fueled by projection.