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[โ€“] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Also, being in the EU means meeting a lot of product, drug, food, etc. safety standards.

Just to pick one, to meet electricity standards, Canadian outlets would have to accept Type C Europlug devices and supply them with 230V at 50 Hz. That would mean redoing the entire Canadian electrical grid in a way that would make it incompatible with the American one. I don't think that's realistic.

More realistic is some variation of the deal that the EU has with Switzerland. Not in the EU but lots of bilateral deals that mostly make the border disappear for travellers.

[โ€“] Scrollone@feddit.it 6 points 8 hours ago

Ireland is in the EU (and the UK was too) and their sockets don't accept Type C either.