The idea of Canada joining the EU has got renewed attention after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened the country with high tariffs
Canada and Mexico should form the American Union and immediately pincer the United States, economically and literally.
They should call the new deal the MexiCana or something. Good for all 3 languages.
Yes, English, Spanish, and whatever the Quebec speak.
Is it still a pincer is it’s A-B-A-B? Don’t forget Alaska.
No, that’s scissors
Canada is the number 9 economy in the world and Mexico is number 15. This would be a significant body. They could add in Cuba and REALLY piss off the US.
National Post is a conservative newspaper owned by Americans.
Yup. Which is why this only makes me want to Canada to be an EU member even more.
Remember, folks, this newspaper is very biased due to its ownership.
We grant you the rank of EU member, but you are not in Europe.
Edit: For those of you taking this seriously, it’s just a play on a stupid star wars meme
We can pass a law saying Canada is part of Europe and Google, Apple, and Microsoft will change their maps.
Doesn’t matter. The requirement is to be “a European country”, not “a country in Europe”. What “European” really means has been left deliberately ambiguous.
What do you mean? We have a land border with Denmark.
If that’s not good enough, maybe Sweden would be willing to part with one of their 267,570 islands. Or at least half of one… if we took the inside half, then Sweden wouldn’t have to worry about losing any of the EEZ.
Neither is Greenland.
People float the idea of Australia joining the EU every so often too, but much the same we’d be a second class country basically handing money over to Germany and France for the sake of it.
Yeah, that’s absolutely not how this works.
I would laugh myself to death.
shouldnt eu then be called atlantic union or something
Nah - Canada can Naxit since we have an extensive land border with Denmark. And nearly every Canadian could make the grueling cross Atlantic swim to France.
Maybe like North Atlantic Treaty
OrganizationunionThey should annex Mexico too and call it the North American - European Union. The NAEU.
Could you imagine the trading asset Mexico would mean for the European Union? Plus, cracking down on drug trafficking across the Atlantic would be easier.
This should totally happen. I struggle to think of anything that would be made worse by adopting European laws and customs.
“I’m a little bit dismayed that this unrealistic debate about EU membership kind of distracts from the things that could really be done to intensify the relationship,” said Hurrelmann. “How could we try to speed up processes of regulatory alignment under CETA? How could we encourage European investment in Canada in areas such as critical raw materials?… Those, I think, are the kinds of debates for which there’s really a lot of potential. And the Canada-EU economic relationship can definitely become closer and can be intensified, and that would be beneficial for both sides, but not through Canada’s membership in the EU.”
Hmm. I’m not actually sure that’s a problem. Even if we say we want to, the first steps are doing things like aligning regulations and setting up free movement, as this article goes into.
But yeah, even if we make EU Canada work it’s a long way off.
Yeah I didn’t get that part either. If we say we want to be part of the EU and in the end we only improve trade with the EU why is that worse then saying we only want to improve trade relations and only improve trade relations? Don’t get why this guys would be “dismayed” unless he doesn’t really want more trade with the EU.
Canada… Northwest Europe.
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Transatlantic Union go!
Well, we’d have to redraw a bunch of maps, so at least it’d one up the dumb Gulf of Mexico distraction.
This seems pretty silly. There are tons of intermediary states Canada could reach without the weird torturing of geography. As the linked piece acknowledges way at the bottom, incidentally.
Imagine if the United States of America had a state that wasn’t part of America. It would be completely crazy! How could it ever make sense?
I mean, picture it: some place, say somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, maybe some independent Polynesian country, just gets made into a state. We wouldn’t be the United States of America anymore!
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It’s not just an issue with location. Canadians tend to think they’re a lot more… culturally and politically European than they are.
And, again, there are lots of other alternatives before having to incorporate a whole-ass North American country with a landmass twice as big as the entire EU and located ten time zones away into a political and economic union designed to let trucks move things around easily.
Why would we? The european Union already has existing territory in Latein america, so a north American Country joining aint ruled Out.
*technically, thanks to France, we already have a Union, where the sun never sets. If it we’re Not for the fact, that those other territories are Not recognized as being an integral territory by France , therefore Not being within EU jurisdiction. I guess, If a certain orange would try to coerce France into selling those territories, this opinion of france would change fast 😉
Agreed.
The idea of Vancouver being in the EU is crazy since it’s halfway around the world.
Although there is French Polynesia and other overseas territories that are part of the EU so I guess it’s not that weird.
