When the ESA gets around to launching humans into space, hopefully it will include Canadians. If Europe ever gets its act together and decides to become an informal republic of autonomous states, it would certainly hurry things up. There is no reason why a unified Europe could not leap over the US in space. They have the money, and they could certainly create a company to rival SpaceX. Over the last 8 decades, they became lax and put too much dependence on America. They put all their investment money into American ventures, not their own. That seems to be changing recently. CERN really did boost their confidence, and now China has decided to invest in the European next generation collider instead of building their own in China.
Maybe Canadians will see the light, and divert our investment dollars into Europe instead of America.
It's called The Hew World Order, where the old rules no longer apply. Europe needs to get over its inferiority complex, and start living in the present. Europe needs to take care of ALL Europe, including Ukraine. It should now be blatantly clear that Ukraine will never be part of Russia again, and European investments in Ukraine will not fall into Russian hands. Russia will not be able to retaliate, especially when Europe no longer needs Russian fossil fuels.