The Globe and Mail: The shelving of the term, after objections from major players, including Germany and France, won’t change the thrust of efforts to deepen economic and security ties between Canada and the EU. However, it does sideline a label that galvanized interest in what this new alliance might look like.
Prime Minister Mark Carney, who is hosting the two-day summit, said he’s not concerned which term the EU uses to describe a closer relationship with Ottawa. “The new alliance is not a marketing exercise,” he told reporters in Montreal on Thursday. “The name doesn’t matter.”…