German here - come on over! We need new english speakers since we lost the brits lol

Canadians need to up their standards and stop setting on being American-lite.

As a European, i am happy that my country is in the European Union, would be bad otherwise for various reasons;
yeah, they sometimes do bad decisions, but overall it's great-- chat control is the biggest shit but we should reject it as much as we can

Generally warm and soft

Can only speak for myself, but I'd love the idea. I think our french and some of our Belgian neighbours ( :) ) would be ecstatic to have more french speakers in the EU.

From a cultural point of view, especially Québec I experienced to be very similar to Europe.

I myself could see myself living and working in Canada for a few years if this would ever come to pass. I stayed in Toronto and Montreal for a while and loved everything about it. Currently there's too much red tape in my field of work however to consider the move, whereas I've lived and worked in several EU countries already.

As a Brit who emigrated to Canada, I'd be delighted if this is how I finally get my EU citizenship back.

EU here. Hell yes!

Could rename it to the Earth Union and keep the acronym

Cyprus is in Asia, and is a member of the EU and was allowed because it was "politically and culturally European". It could be argued that Canada would qualify under those same circumstances.

We even have something that Cyprus doesn't, and land border with an EU country (Denmark), and a sea border with an EU country (France).

And while we were independent of the UK from a governmental point of view, we were still a dominion of the UK until 1982, which means we even have historical precedence in the EU as an overseas territory, though never in an official way.

Neither is the South American continent but part of it is in the EU too.

Weil said 🙌

Their chief weapon is beer.

French Guyana isn't in Europe either and nobody cares, so there's precedent.

A union of nation states that value freedom.

United States of Freedom?

That term has been thoroughly tainted.

would have to give up quite a bit of their sovereignty which would be a hard sell politically.

You say that like we don't want to work together.

But I'm sure provinces in Germany and Spain get to have their own squabbles like our petty ones.

10 exceptions to their rules.

Provinces needing their snowflake exceptions get annexed by America. If the UK could join the EU there's nothing stopping us but nostalgia; and I hear that's not a strategy anymore.

Ultimately, we're gonna have to one day decide whether we're Canadian and quit the in-fighting. If we can't learn the lesson of Queenston Heights then we deserve what we get.

There actually is an “EU & Friends” called the EEA. Would be pretty nice to have our Canadian Friends here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Economic_Area

many European projects are incompatible with Canada.

That can change, it’s just matter of will.

Everything is car centric, and if you're not rich enough to own a car, you're basically excluded from public life

Amsterdam changed.

Paris is changing.

… København

Seriously, visiting North America is “we’ve tried adding a [car] lane to the highway and can’t figure out why nobody is cycling or taking transit.”

Transportation networks indeed make little sense when there’s an ocean in between. Too bad the USA can’t play nicely with others.

Common standards would be a challenge, in some areas -can’t do electrical because 50hz vs 60hz and deep integration with USA grid. The NEMA plugs are a bit of a nightmare. But for vehicle safety and emissions it would be a step forward; more countries adopted the EU than US standards there.

Make maple syrup part of the standard European breakfast!

Fukan lol, been there