The former German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel has proposed offering Canada partial membership in the European Union. "Maybe not fully integrated like everyone else, but maybe partially," the Social Democrat told the Bremen-based newspaper Weser-Kurier in comments published on Saturday. Europe must resist US President Donald Trump's push to make Canada part of the United States, said Gabriel, who was foreign minister from 2017-18 and vice chancellor from 2013-18 under then chancellor Angela M
I didn’t even realise this comment was a joke and was confused at OPs question, until I realized they were thinking about the EU.