the purpose of the meeting was to sell weapons to ukraine by using european financing. canada wasn't invited because we had no role to play in the transaction.
did canada's government really want to help finance the ukrainian military that badly?
our government is constantly utterly clueless. we keep showing up everywhere thinking we're the real hegemon, not the americans, and we're constantly making ridiculous fools of ourselves. if the problem with trudeau was a lack of political experience and knowledge, replacing him with a complete rookie that had never run for office was hardly any sort of rational solution.
it's going to take a very long time to undo this.