At first glance it sounds good but joining the EU officially is unnecessarily complex. It would make more sense to join Europe similar to Iceland and Norway.
And a bunch of other related agreements (Norway at center left):
Arguably, as it has worked out, being in the EU is like the capstone of aligning with Europe in those other ways. To get closer to Europe you get closer to joining the EU, even if you never actually do.
I would love to join the EU, my grandpa immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands after WW2 but Netherlands doesn’t offer citizenship to grandchildren ):
Would be nice to have the freedom of travel to the EU and vice versa if anyone wants to come over and visit Canada.
It would be terrible for our country, just look at the impact the mere thought of tarrifs has had on our economy. A full renegotiation of the US Canada trade border would be chaos.
Europeans are cool and I wish we had your public transit, but EU membership of a NA country will never happen.
A full renegotiation of the US Canada trade border would be chaos
But that is precisely what Trump is demanding now. Even though he tore up NAFTA and renegotiated the deal in his first presidency (I am sure I remember him saying it was the greatest trade deal ever signed and the greatest win for TrumpAmerica).
I think the EU is waiting to see if we get PP or not since we’re on the brink of stupidity like the US was. If we elect a PM interested in being a civilized member of the global stage, I think we’ll be invited in.
And Canada does have a land border with an EU country - Denmark. Canada and Denmark had a long standing border dispute over Hans island featuring multiple armed raids. It was resolved in a mature and sensible fashion to just divide the island. Good for all involved.
The only ‘dispute’ I know about on Hans island was the Whisky Dispute, which was resolved peacefully after years of soldiers ‘claiming’ the land by stealing each other’s flags and leaving booze for each other. More like a very lazy game of capture the flag if you ask me.
I mean…technically…sure. But the two armed groups were never actually there at the same time. They simply came at different times to swap Whiskey and Schnaps.
I’m doubtful full membership will ever happen, and even an EEA Norway-style agreement where we adopt 75% of the EU’s laws without representation but keep our fishing and agricultural policies, would take decades to be negotiated, signed and ratified with all the dysfunctional, proportional representational governments in Europe right now.
I would be grateful for any kind of free movement agreement that gains traction right now.
Would Canada be interested in joining the EU? Might make sense considering what a bad neighbor the US has become.
hungary will block it probably
At first glance it sounds good but joining the EU officially is unnecessarily complex. It would make more sense to join Europe similar to Iceland and Norway.
Which isn’t actually mutually exclusive - kind of the opposite actually.
Sorry I think it’s too early for me to understand what you mean haha.
Aren’t Iceland and Norway in the Schengen area, but not actually in the EU?
And a bunch of other related agreements (Norway at center left):
Arguably, as it has worked out, being in the EU is like the capstone of aligning with Europe in those other ways. To get closer to Europe you get closer to joining the EU, even if you never actually do.
That infographic is fantastic
Wikipedia has them for a bunch of regions, actually. Ours is way more of a clusterfuck.
At the very least, Canada should be allowed to participate in the Eurovision song contest!
I would love to join the EU, my grandpa immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands after WW2 but Netherlands doesn’t offer citizenship to grandchildren ):
Would be nice to have the freedom of travel to the EU and vice versa if anyone wants to come over and visit Canada.
It would be terrible for our country, just look at the impact the mere thought of tarrifs has had on our economy. A full renegotiation of the US Canada trade border would be chaos.
Europeans are cool and I wish we had your public transit, but EU membership of a NA country will never happen.
But that is precisely what Trump is demanding now. Even though he tore up NAFTA and renegotiated the deal in his first presidency (I am sure I remember him saying it was the greatest trade deal ever signed and the greatest win for
TrumpAmerica).As a Canadian… we didn’t know this was an option. But hell yeah, we’d join the EU.
This Canadian would be happy to join.
I think the EU is waiting to see if we get PP or not since we’re on the brink of stupidity like the US was. If we elect a PM interested in being a civilized member of the global stage, I think we’ll be invited in.
And Canada does have a land border with an EU country - Denmark. Canada and Denmark had a long standing border dispute over Hans island featuring multiple armed raids. It was resolved in a mature and sensible fashion to just divide the island. Good for all involved.
The only ‘dispute’ I know about on Hans island was the Whisky Dispute, which was resolved peacefully after years of soldiers ‘claiming’ the land by stealing each other’s flags and leaving booze for each other. More like a very lazy game of capture the flag if you ask me.
Are these the armed raids you refer to?
I mean…technically…sure. But the two armed groups were never actually there at the same time. They simply came at different times to swap Whiskey and Schnaps.
Taking whiskey and leaving fucking schnapps is the real crime here.
Welp, now the Danes are going to vote no.
Canada also has land in France. The Vimy Ridge memorial is officially Canadian territory, granted by France.
France also has St. Pierre and Miquelon that shares a border with Newfoundland.
Maritime border. They are a couple km off the coast.
I would be happy if we at least could ratify CETA finally. Sheesh
I’m doubtful full membership will ever happen, and even an EEA Norway-style agreement where we adopt 75% of the EU’s laws without representation but keep our fishing and agricultural policies, would take decades to be negotiated, signed and ratified with all the dysfunctional, proportional representational governments in Europe right now.
I would be grateful for any kind of free movement agreement that gains traction right now.
Of course you’re getting downvoted, this is the rational answer.
Nonsense those countries with proportional representation are more stable and perform better on a variety of issues.
They score higher on the democracy index than we do.
Canadian here, everybody I know would love this
Another Canadian here… yes please.
I’m not opposed to it!
I’m sorry but I I have to agree