[Verse 1] Nov fifth, committee room, Colin Robertson's speaking low, Says Canada and Europe move only where the interests flow, Middle-power charter on the table, but it's just a draft, a seed, Montreal shook hands on digital trade, called it the deepest partnership need, High-performance computing, EIB dollars in the mix, "Short of accession" — that's the ceiling, that's the fix. [Chorus] Issue by issue, track by parallel track, Charter's only proposed, no signatures, no contract, CETA's been running since twenty seventeen, provisional and slow, Nine, maybe ten member states still won't let it go. [Verse 2] Read the fine print on the summit statement, here's what shifted true, They dropped the call for full ratification, asked for "effective" too, Softer word than last November's language, quietly rewrote, Nobody in the headline mentioned that — I'm pulling back the coat. [Chorus] Issue by issue, track by parallel track, Charter's only proposed, no signatures, no contract, CETA's been running since twenty seventeen, provisional and slow, Nine, maybe ten member states still won't let it go. [Verse 3] Here's a number to ground you: Europe takes six point seven percent Of what Canada ships out yearly — that's the actual content, The States pull sixty-seven point two, the lion's share, no debate, And since August twenty-second, fifty percent tariffs on twenty billion in freight. So when they talk "deepest partnership," ask partnership with who, The trade math still leans west — that's the part that stayed true. [Bridge] Ireland passed arbitration law back in June, quiet and plain, But the Dáil still needs a resolution before ratification's claim, Czech, Romanian, Bulgarian leaders held their pen for a visa trade, Beef quotas sitting underused — carcass rules, French and Spanish labels delayed. [Verse 4] No date found for a vote, no calendar circled red, Digital trade pact's nearly finished, that's the line ahead, Watch the Dáil, watch the carcass rules, watch nine states turn to ten, Issue by issue, that's the charter — cooperation, not quite a friend. [Verse 5] Diversification's the word they've used since twenty eighteen began, Reduce reliance south of the border, that was always the plan, But plans don't move at treaty speed, they move at member-state pace, Seven years of provisional status — that's the diversification's actual face. Public hearings in Brussels, farmers raising their voice loud, Investment court system still contested, still wrapped in legal shroud. [Chorus] Issue by issue, track by parallel track, Charter's only proposed, no signatures, no contract, CETA's been running since twenty seventeen, provisional and slow, Nine, maybe ten member states still won't let it go. [Outro] November seventh, Europe's ledger, half-signed and half-delayed, Call it partnership if you want — the ratification's still unmade.
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