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[โ€“] 01011@monero.town 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

So they'll take Canada but not Turkiye?

On order for them to join the Kurdish question has to be addressed. That's not happening any time soon.

[โ€“] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 2 points 1 month ago

There are checkpointsย for accession and Tรผrkije has halted all its progress.

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[โ€“] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Similar to the deal the UK got?

[โ€“] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[โ€“] Windex007@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Adopting the Euro isn't a requirement, so kinda a weird thing to say.

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Not sure if their new immigration policy is gonna fly, were the government to agree to that

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