Former German Foreign Minister Gabriel proposes Canada's EU membership
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Okay everyone, time to get started working on a Eurovision entry.
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Retooling the entire country would be a shit show at best, and prohibitively expensive, so they'd likely stay at their current spec. Also, energy trade is quite profitable, and for geographic regions it makes sense to keep standards aligned.
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Our borders are sound, and we're not at war.
We have a land border with Denmark and a Sea border with France.
Let's go !
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That would be so cool if I could visit Canada without any visa or other shit.
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Georgia is a EU candidate and it's neither in Europe nor bordering a EU state. It should definitely be possible.
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If Trump pulls through with his plans to invade Canada and Greenland, the only Canadian products exportable to the US are artillery grenades and bullets anyway.
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Was about to say that: Sea border wise you are closer to France than the British are.
(Fun fact: Do you know which country has the longest land border to France? .....it's Brazil)
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Looked it up,no,they wouldn't. There are provisions for these cases (same for the UK and Ireland with their driving sides) in these regulations and most EU regulations in that regard are based in ISO anyway.
They might get funding for it from the EU, though,so it might be a fun thing to calculate the costs.
Very likely it would be cheaper for Canada to slowly transfer away from it, anyway, as the rest of the world is not using it and with the US putting tarrifs on,it might be the better option.Tbh, the "EU regulations" are often not that bad actually for the smaller user(and I work in healthcare where the medical device regulations seem nightmarish at first - once you understand them they are FAR easier than what we had before and FAR cheaper to follow than the US rules. My former employer - the world leader in their field- e.g. refused to sell in the US for that reason).
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You grossly misunderstood what the single market means - there are of course absolutely different local regulations and customs that are used.
Ireland (and the UK before they left) drive on the other side of the road, trains systems vary by nation, even electrical standards do - the single market in terms of norms means that they just have to all follow a general market admission will follow the same rules - e.g. a product needs to fully comply with the basic marke wide ruleset. -
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As Canada is a country roughly the size of Poland it would seem to be beneficial to join the EU (pop. 441m) with a balance of right- and left-wing views. Better than being economically and culturally tied to the death-cult in the US.
