A further 58 per cent indicated it was a proposal worth exploring further
The br*tish would be so mad hahaha
Honestly i find it funny. Lets add australia and New Zeeland too! Britain leaves the union “to have trade deals with australia” then australia joins the EU. Would be the funniest shit ever
I think you give too much credit to the morons who voted for economic suicide. They didn’t vote to have deals with Australia, they all thought we were so big and important that the EU would bend over backwards to give us a favourable trade deal even though every single expert on the subject disagreed. The Australia and Canada deals came up only after we shot ourselves in the head.
I didnt give any credit to the morons voting for economic suicide. But i pitty them for all they fell for.
Charles de gaule said it best “britain will see the european community only as replacrment to its dying empire and wont ever dedicate itself to it”
de Gaulle*
^(Mnemotechnic : one L for may 1968 and one L for french Algeria /s)
Oi!
We Aussies have been in Eurovision for over a decade.
We better be let in the EU before those other cunts!
Cheers
I’d love to have you cunts in the EU!
The Victoria Bitter is cooling and the barbies are being lit for the welcome party.
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Canada is not geographically eligible to join the EU by definition. The founding treaties would need to be rewritten and re-signed by all parties, which does not seem feasible short-term. The way more likely route is more trade agreements and such, which would indeed be good for everyone
Fortunately, in the post-truth world we no longer have to be limited by the meanings of words or historical precedent. We can simply redefine geography whenever it suits us, others are already doing so with impunity. If the Gulf of Mexico can become the Gulf of America and South America can become the United Colonies of America, then why can’t Canada become Europe? Nobody gives a fuck anymore. This isn’t about getting marked correctly on an assignment, this is about survival in the face of the collapse of world order and building a fortress around social democracy before it’s divided and conquered.
i mean europe is a made up continent anyway. If the ural mountains are continental boundaries then tell me why the rockies or the hymalayas aren’t?
Europe is just code for “white asia”
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Doesn’t Canada have a land border with Denmark in one Arctic island or something similar?
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I mean everyone would have to agree if Canada wanted to join anyways, so if Canada wants to join and the EU want to ever let another country join they will have to form consensus sooner or later
Ok, but besides the bylaws, treaties, & other whathaveyous, afaik Canada has systems (trades, standards) way close to USA than to continental European countries. From the integration pov this would be a giant task. And if Canada would gain significant power (which it would) a lot more of “USA” things & ways of life would leak to “euEU”.
It’s a very complex hypothetical question that can hardly be judged via sentiment tracking at “this stage” (which isn’t even a stage).
Nevertheless positive responses are very nice, yay friends!
Canenter, Canentrance, Can’entree?
Can’En-route
I tried to make it work in both French and English.
Canjoin
How hard is it to move a country to get it into the EU?
Assuming you don’t have a couple hundred million years.
Well, we’re already only 20km away from France, south of Newfoundland. And share a little land border with Greenland.
Greenland is part of the Danish kingdom but it’s not in the EU unfortunately.
United earth? Lol
The year is 2098, Earth has finally found peace and united under one flag, except for England, who is sticking to its Brexit plans.
But only england. Scotland, wales, cornwall, north ireland, island of man, they are all not part anymore
Wooooooo 🏴
Earth Union
A Super Earth, if you will.
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It kinda makes sense when you thinkabout greenland.
I’m up for it just to trigger and over power Trump’s permanent term
Truthfully, it’s likely a case of either they partner with the EU or realize Trump’s 51st state remark isn’t bravodo.
We should develop much closer commercial and other ties (eg regulatory) with the EU but Canada should not outright join. We don’t need the Euro and we don’t need the European Stability and Growth Pact. Lower as many barriers, but we have to keep control of our basic economic policy levers.
Edit: by the way, after looking it up, I’m finding that EU rules about “State Aid” would make the new NDP platform (Avi Lewis campaigned on public options and Crown corporations for various sectors, and buy-canadian rules to protect workers during the green transition) infeasible. So… no, I’m not interested in joining an economic bloc that makes democratic socialism functionally impossible.
Similar to the deal the UK got?
The UK was in, fucked up and crashed out. It also has some very weird peculiarities due to the Good Friday Agreement.
I suspect a version of the Swiss model is probably best for Canada, with high integration and Schengen membership but done very granularly on a bilateral basis.
Edit, I changed my mind, see above.
Some kind of North Atlantic Trade Organization?
Or how about my favourite game title from the 90s that I never played: Federation of Free Traders
Yes, what we need is more bureaucracy and endless layers of useless people.
I’m in! Tax me baby!
What is kinda wild to me is that I have read about a dozen articles like this and not one of them actually indicates what benefit Canada would get from joining the EU, apart from ‘we all know that America sucks’, but being in the EU doesn’t actually solve that either.
Some things I can think of:
It provides a better chance to mutually recognize education and professional experience. It helps with both our export markets to each other. It motivates us to improve our tax system and other archaic regulations. We have an easier time at border checkpoints and can more easily immigrate for work across continents. We can move to a Euro-pegged currency or the Euro itself if we so choose and meet the European fiscal standards.
We can improve Canada in any way we want. We don’t need the EU to do that. There is nothing that stops us from recognizing EU credentials but ourselves.
I don’t see how pegging the CAD to the Euro would be useful.
I agree on negotiating freedom of movement, potentially joining Schengen. Same for negotiating recognition of Canadian credentials in Europe although that’s less of a problem, usually the other direction is the problem.
There are some ups and downsides to the member perks. As for the exchange rate, we could have a stable bloc rate rather than one that is more or less correlated to the price of oil or US events.
We can accept credentials but the bigger benefit is if the Bloc can accept Canadian ones, which is best achieve through agreement.
I think that joining the Schengen Area is inclusive of people’s idea of “open to discussion of Canada joining Europe”. Do we want or need to join the EU tomorrow? In my opinion not really but its a good time to foster a closer relationship and gradually remove barriers between Canada and the bloc.
Yes, but it is more easily with a Union.
Trade for example needs 2 or more parties to agree. Canada can’t decide that on their own.
But if Canada were to join the EU, they would have better trade with all 27 EU countries at the same time.
We already have CETA.
not one of them actually indicates what benefit Canada would get from joining the EU
Do you just fundamentally not understand what the EU is, or are you looking for some specific details?
Weird that its hard for you you to understand what the question here is.
What is the benefit to Canada of joining the EU?
One economic union without hurdles, freedom of movement inside the schengen area? Increased cooperation between other EU member states? Haven’t you heard Carney’s speech about middle powers?
Most Canadians probably don’t want to have free movement of people
They can move and work anywhere in the schengen region. So personal freedom is increased. I guess you mean other people coming from the EU to Canada. I showed you how it could be a benefit for Canadians. They’d have to decide if they want it tho. I doubt Canada would be overrun tho if you’re meaning that and it also benefits the economy that might seek workers in other Schengen countries if they don’t have enough skilled workers domestically
Only the racist ones that blame all their problems on foreigners maybe. The rest see how free movement only improves the lives of the population.
Maybe you should look up the laws then. Canada’s got some of the most anti immigration laws in the world.
I mean our leaders have a lot in common (they’re both genocidal cronies)
