Sure thing! I hope they drag their old masters in the UK along with them when they arrive. This will stretch the meaning of "Europe" a tad though.
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If Turkey can join Canada certainly can
At least part of turkey is on the European continent, or sub confident if you prefer.
French Guiana is in South America yet is part of the EU. Besides, Canada is a former European colony and technically is still run by a European monarch.
But all that aside, both the EU and Canada are stronger together. Any justification needed to make people accept that fact should be used.
French Guiana is part of France. France is part of the EU. There's a little bit of a difference.
I don't know if full membership is reasonable. Full membership would mean complying with all EU standards, those standards include electrical standards, and Canadian and European electrical standards are completely different. They run on 240V at 50Hz and Canada runs on 120V at 60Hz.
But, a closer alignment would be a great idea. Make it easier for workers to move between the EU and Canada. Harmonize some laws (for example, bring EU privacy and data protection laws to Canada). Require Canada to have more efficient vehicles and appliances.
Surely those standards are occasionally amended to include historic exceptions.
Yep
I'm not in favor of this.
We don't need more super-national institution telling us what to do. I'm on board for good relations and for taking ideas from them, but we need to stop giving power to distant institutions that aren't truly invested in our success.
So. Just cooperation at the provincial level, which we're excelling at? People cooperate, neighbourhoods, zones, towns, districts, regions, provinces and then no! Stop there! Is that the arbitrary line you've drawn?
I don't know man, the north Atlantic ocean isn't that arbitrary. I'm just saying that our population has been burned out worrying about super high level stuff that doesn't impact them as much as neighborhood activism.
I'm not accusing you of being a trumpist, but Trump literally called the US-Canada border an arbitrary line, so maybe try a different talking point for this topic?
Yes
I didn't have this on my bingo card when the year started, but hey, I'm all for it. Come join us, be one of us. We are all friends, except Hungary. They should just throw their government out.
Putin and Trump want to split the EU and destroy our unity. Let's make it bigger and better than they ever expected.
I'm in. I'll miss the Loonie, but Europe's looking pretty good these days.
Same. I wouldn't mind switching to the Euro, but our coins are really cool and nostalgic for me. It would be nice if there were a way to keep them.
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Norweigians are just being weird because of their oil riches. They fear (perhaps legitimately) that we'll tax those off of them.
The EU requires unanimity among its existing members in order to add a new member. It's not impossible, but getting Orban to agree to it is, I think, a much bigger stumbling block than the article implies. Any "concessions" Orban demands to accept Canada would themselves have to be unanimously agreed to by existing members.
Orban has to vote for Canada. Why? His regime will be over in 14 days if he does not get the EU money. Orban's biggest rival is in first place according to the latest polls. If he wants to be re-elected, he cannot sabotage EU policy.
The EU requires unanimity among its existing members
Wow, that's a rule that doesn't scale well. Especially since apparently expelling a country requires unanimity too.
We should just create EU 2.0 without them, with proper rules to handle that bullshit in the future, and... I don't know, Blackjack maybe.
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I want all of the consumer protections EU citizens get like being able to side load apps on iPhones etc.
Some privacy laws would be nice, eh?
At the very least, joining with their economic standards is a path we should move towards.
Absolutely. This would be such a boon to both Canada and the EU
Yeah let's do it
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