# Closer Canada-EU ties are ‘sensible,’ former U.K. MP says

https://mins.news/en/video/61842

- CBC News, 2026-09-16 23:59 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uUi6Cx94JA

> Former U.K. MP Andrew Percy, who voted for Brexit, says closer cooperation between Canada and Europe would be “sensible” amid disrupted trade with the U.S., even though full EU membership is not available to Canada. U.S. President Donald Trump recently called the associate-membership idea “laughable.”

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