Canada's Carney seeks closer Europe ties to counter hostile US

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney will be the first head of government to attend the State of European Union address, to be delivered next week by by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Thibault Camus) Prime Minister Mark Carney calls Canada "the most European of non-European countries," and while formal EU membership may be tricky, he is pursuing unprecedented closeness with the bloc to reduce dependence on a hostile United States. Carney heads to Strasbourg, France, this week…