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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.
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.
liberal counterweight to autocratic hegemony
Nobody is expecting the European Commission.
Their chief weapon is beer.
Canadian here. Interesting points. I feel most Canadians would be cautiously open to the idea. How do EU regular people feel?
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 Quรฉbec 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.
German here - come on over! We need new english speakers since we lost the brits lol
We speak French and Indigenous languages too.
Most of Europe does just fine with English speaking on their own, and some would argue better than the Brits.
Just donโt let the French hear the Quebecois, theyโll veto straightaway.
Most French people are well aware of our existence. We generally treat each others as cousins and the people with who we have the most cultural affinity in the world.
Hey, we're willing, nay desperate, to come back. Well, most of us, just not the sodding politicians!
Generally warm and soft
Canadians need to up their standards and stop setting on being American-lite.
I have been in Canada for over 20 years and little by little I have realized most of what I like from Canada is what we inherited/copied from Europe and everything I hate came from the dumpster fire below.
As always, the devil is in the details, but in general I would welcome any stronger alliance with the EU
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 โfrom 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. ๐คท
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 can
EU here, yes pls. Iโve never been there but Iโve always loved the idea of Canada. Hospitality, human rights, healthcare, โฆ all values we should hold high and unite over.
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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. Hell yes!
As Canada isnโt in Europe, some renaming has to happenโฆ perhaps Freedom Union?
That term has been thoroughly tainted.
Only in one certain country, so it works.
A union of nation states that value freedom.
United States of Freedom?
Article is too long...
It'd be a little weird as Canada is not in Europe but other than that it'd be a perfect fit. Much better fit than Turkey or even Hungary...
Could rename it to the Earth Union and keep the acronym
I donโt think that will work. We canโt have centralized decisions being made for Canada in Brussels and through consensus with a bunch of countries who we donโt even share a continent with. That being said, we exist because of mother France and father Britain (who unceremoniously left the family). So we will ALWAYS be aligned with Europe.
As a Swede I feel kind of the the same, but regarding joining the Euro. But what are our options? Sure the Krona could survive another 100 years but the full access to the inner market seems pretty rad. But yeah we need to have a serious talk about democracy with Hungary and a talk about sustainable finances with some countries.
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.
This would be wonderful!
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.