In 10 years there will be European countries all over the world.
this post was submitted on 12 Mar 2025
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It's a nice idea but the EU needs to do a treaty reform to do that. There'll also be a major issue with integrating since Canada is a part of NAFTA and will have to potentially produce labels and hold standards of both. There are probably some regulations that contradict each other somewhere.
Seems like the current US government is trying to rip that agreement right up
Capitalists are gonna have a meltdown when we'll have to implement the 4 weeks minimum paid vacation, banked overtime with a yearly limit, bretter minimum wage, tougher regulations on food and environment protection. Etc.
Yet i can get behind this framework as something good for the population. It’s like a NDP program but more realistic and with economic growth with our peers as a target.
This year (most years) i will vote Liberal but i did vote NDP on and off in the past and my circumscription changes from red to orange often in the last two decades.
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I’ll probably get called entitled, but even 3 weeks isn’t enough, and I know that’s more than many people get.
You're not entitled, your advocating for yourself and others. Work should not be our whole lives.
You’re being reasonable.
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Fucking worth the extra taxes. The EU isn't perfect, but they're still sane enough to back.
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Ya, I bet those aren't the people in favour.
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That would be the craziest shit to be honest, but I sure welcome you all!
Being a member of the European Economic Area is a more realistic goal and would probably solve Canada's problems derived from being far too Economically entwinned with their next door neighbour.
Mind you, any form of being part of the EU Single Market (which EEA members are without being EU members) requires a ton of uniformization of things like Product regulations (which amongst other things means Canada would not be allowed to import many if not most US food products such as for example beef of cattle which has been fed hormones) and acceptance of Freedom Of Movement for both people and goods.
(Following Brexit, Britain did not move to become an EEA member exactly because of both the Freedom of Movement requirement and the difficulty in getting other EEA member approval since the UK are a disproportionatelly large economy compared to all EEA members but Canada's reasons are different - not anti-immigration and xenophobia like the UK - so things like Freedom Of Movement would probably not be an issue and its Economy is just a bit over half the size of the UK's)
We need stronger ally relationships, considering things are going south with our Southern ally!
This is going to be so funny for Britain.
They have their Commonwealth of Nations to develop further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations
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I think EU membership is a huge stretch, but we could certainly move in the direction of harmonizing with EU trade regulations. A good medium-term goal might be to join the Schengen trade zone, and then move on from there.
I would support stronger ties to Canada, but Canada is not exactly in Europe
Why would that matter? It's a political and economical union, not a geographical one.
As the parliament says
In order to apply for EU membership, a country has to be European and respect the EU's democratic values
Since according to Article 49
The applicant country must [...] be a European state;
https://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar/0ae670d2-1ece-4994-b1e3-adda39e1c6de.0006.03/DOC_1
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Canada does share a land boarder with Denmark.
Two! Both sea and land borders with France. Don't forget Vimy Ridge!
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What if we just take Canada and move it over a little?
Thinking outside the ~~box~~ continent. I like it
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Why would this be surprising given the state of things?
Fuck yeeeah!
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