Canadian here. Interesting points. I feel most Canadians would be cautiously open to the idea. How do EU regular people feel?
German here - come on over! We need new english speakers since we lost the brits lol
Most of Europe does just fine with English speaking on their own, and some would argue better than the Brits.
Just don’t let the French hear the Quebecois, they’ll veto straightaway.
Hey, we’re willing, nay desperate, to come back. Well, most of us, just not the sodding politicians!
We speak French and Indigenous languages too.
Canadians need to up their standards and stop setting on being American-lite.
According to the article, Canada is above the average EU member on property rights protection, judicial independence, regulatory coherence, trade openness, and social security systems, low corruption, regulatory clarity, and overall investment climate, higher education quality, corporate research and development spending, patent registrations, and the diffusion of advanced technologies —from broadband infrastructure to digital services. The next line: In short, Canada already behaves like a de facto member of the club in all but name.
Our food, climate and vehicle standards need to be upgraded though.
Sounds manageable. 🤷
As a European, i am happy that my country is in the European Union, would be bad otherwise for various reasons;
yeah, they sometimes do bad decisions, but overall it’s great-- chat control is the biggest shit but we should reject it as much as we canI think a lot of Europeans would be against the idea tbh.
Can only speak for myself, but I’d love the idea. I think our french and some of our Belgian neighbours ( :) ) would be ecstatic to have more french speakers in the EU.
From a cultural point of view, especially Québec I experienced to be very similar to Europe.
I myself could see myself living and working in Canada for a few years if this would ever come to pass. I stayed in Toronto and Montreal for a while and loved everything about it. Currently there’s too much red tape in my field of work however to consider the move, whereas I’ve lived and worked in several EU countries already.
Canadian here, yes please
As a Brit who emigrated to Canada, I’d be delighted if this is how I finally get my EU citizenship back.
EU here, yes pls. I’ve never been there but I’ve always loved the idea of Canada. Hospitality, human rights, healthcare, … all values we should hold high and unite over.
Australia as well please, love to join the grand EU project. Anything that brings people closer together in a fractured world is a good thing.
After reading the article, I am still not sure whether that’s a good idea because such an expansion likely comes with additional conflicts. Wouldn’t mind a EU & Friends though. In general Canada has been very stable, reasonable and constructive in the last years.
I like the idea, although our provinces would have to give up quite a bit of their sovereignty which would be a hard sell politically. We have more trade barriers between our provinces than the EU has.
We’re a good sized market, but not so big that the EU would be willing to put up with 10 exceptions to their rules.
would have to give up quite a bit of their sovereignty which would be a hard sell politically.
You say that like we don’t want to work together.
But I’m sure provinces in Germany and Spain get to have their own squabbles like our petty ones.
10 exceptions to their rules.
Provinces needing their snowflake exceptions get annexed by America. If the UK could join the EU there’s nothing stopping us but nostalgia; and I hear that’s not a strategy anymore.
Ultimately, we’re gonna have to one day decide whether we’re Canadian and quit the in-fighting. If we can’t learn the lesson of Queenston Heights then we deserve what we get.
Ooh, can you imagine the freakout that would happen in Washington?
Would be funny however they get no say on this.
liberal counterweight to autocratic hegemony
Nobody is expecting the European Commission.
I’m Canadian. Sign me up! I remember as a lad in the 1960’s that commercials on TV compared Canada to the nordic countries, not america. That’s right around the start of “capitalization” when “business administration” students were pushed out of colleges in huge numbers and everything slowly went to hell.
Better start practicing your Canadian then.
Make maple syrup part of the standard European breakfast!
I also like it that their King Charles III has no say in it while some other parts of the commonwealth left EU in recent history.
It’s going to happen after Albania!
I was partially in favour, but this article changed my mind. There are many ways to cooperate on everything if this is the point. In the article there is little understanding of what the EU is
And the articles said nothing about what joining would bring Canada.
Not sure I want the EU to share a border with the US
The EU already shares a border with Russia…
Just my 2 cents. Having a border with Russia is no easy task . Ask Finland and a bunch of other countries that were “blessed” to deal with it
That’s the point. We don’t need another one.
All for it
