‘A Canada-style free trade agreement’ should not be taken to literally mean the UK and EU will copy and paste the EU’s free trade agreement with Canada. It is just an example of an accepted balance of access and obligations.
A more recent example of the sort of relationship the UK is looking to negotiate would be the EU’s trade agreement with Japan.
Or if we’re going hipster, could look at negotiations that haven’t concluded yet, and mandate for EU-Australia FTA.
data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/S…
Or if we’re going hipster, could look at negotiations that haven’t concluded yet, and mandate for EU-Australia FTA.
data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/S…
But another thing to understand, is that the trade agreement is just one pillar of future EU-UK cooperation, that will sit alongside cooperation in other areas such as security, defense, social security.
All of these pillars will end up being packaged beneath a so-called institutional framework, which will set out the structures for ongoing political dialogue, negotiation, dispute settlement and governance.
So in English: a broader partnership agreement, or association agreement, of which trade is a component part, but not the only part.
