Interest in Canada joining the EU has increased amid US tensions, with 44% of Canadians supporting the idea. While the EU acknowledges shared values, Canada’s geographic distance and historical precedent present challenges for membership.
Not sure if that could work. It’s also a question about culture and values.
And sorry to say this dear Canadians: You are at least partly americanized.Please elaborate
Holy fuck, yes!!
Canada, come join us!
And Greenland should get to be a sovereign state as part of the EU as well - if they want to
That would be just fucking awesome all around! :-D
Well, Greenland was an EU member, but they left. Can’t remember when, but it was before brexit, so the UK wasn’t the only, or even the first, to leave. Possibly the last though, as the appetite for leaving seems to have dropped significantly.
As the current world situation looks very different, I think the EU is a much more attractive option - at least I hope so
I think full membership is very unlikely, but maybe Canada can join the EU Customs Union or even the Schengen Area at some point in the future.
The EU is not a geographical union despite it’s name. Even then, Canada and Europe share a common border; the Atlantic Ocean. Also it’s part of the Commonwealth, Has a strong economy, social politics, The Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian tradition. And they speak the two most common European languages. Canada makes more sense than Türkiye if you disregard distance.
Even then, Canada and Europe share a common border; the Atlantic Ocean.
- land border with Denmark
- sea border with France.
If the UK can join the EU, then Canada can join the EU.
Also sea border with Ireland
I mean the UK is geographically European no matter how much a certain segment of the population likes to think otherwise.
Saint Pierre and Miquelon is right off the coast of Newfoundland.
If someone had told me ten years ago that in 2025 the UK would have long left the EU and we were talking about a membership of Canada, I would have declared them bewildered. LOL.
I think the UK will have to rejoin now. We’re too vulnerable.
Yeah, all for it.
We can thank Stephen Harper and Pierre Polievre for ignoring Europe for so long when we should have been there for you guys, helping you separate from Putin’s oil and gas.
Hopefully Carney will remedy that situation, and we can all get rid of the despotic sycophants.
I can’t imagine Canada joining like a normal EU member country would. But I do hope Canada enters into special cooperation and trade agreements if possible.
Canada and the EU already have a trade agreement in place since 2017:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Economic_and_Trade_Agreement
I believe that it has been violated recently, so is no longer strictly valid.
CETA has been around for ages. Now if only taxes weren’t applied on imported goods, we’d be set.
I can’t imagine it and my gut feeling is that it’s a terrible idea for the same reason as having the US be our military was a terrible idea. Geolocation matters, and Canadas location means it has interests that are fundamentally different from the EU. A major thing is that it doesn’t have Russia breathing down its neck.
It also feels like a slippery slope where we’ll eventually have Mexico and, god forbid, the US joining as well. Then suddenly the will of European countries is overshadowed by these North American giants.
That said, Canada is cool and joining forces against the US is good.
We could just start a new european union and replace the UN with the old EU.
If you are trying to say that Canada doesn’t have Russia breathing down its neck, then you are wrong. Tensions over the Arctic have been high for years.
We’re only one border removed via Alaska (which might as well be Russia if things keep going this way). And with the arctic ice melting, Russian warships & subs could directly threaten our north and west coasts.
Canada isn’t really a giant in any sense of the word. I mean it is one of the world’s top economies, but so are Britain, France and Germany. Mexico is economically even smaller. The US should absolutely not be allowed to join, though, yeah.
Canada actually shares a land border with the EU.
There are so many regulatory hurdles, especially in farming and agriculture.While technically correct. I don’t think the existence of Hans Island, an uninhabited speck between Greenland and Canada really counts as a land border between the EU and Canada. Any trade would happen by ship or plane directly between the continents. Not a border corssing on Hans Island.
Although, if EU rules require some kind of land border… Hans Island might be important after all.
And Canada has its own hurdles within its own regions to overcome too.
Not sure how that works, but it’s their federation system or something.Weeeeeelllllllllllllllllll Greenland isn’t in the EU afaik. We do share a maritime boarder with France though!
So you’re saying Canada should became a tributary to the Kingdom of Denmark? lfg!
Someone should get the internet and search things.
Can’t we use our close proximity to Saint Pierre and Miquelon as a foot in the door?
Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon is not part of the EU.
Can’t wait for Brazil to join the EU on that basis.
Sounds good to me.
“Wait, it’s all the European Union?”
YES!!! DO IT!!!
