Carney said this is not an option he's pushing for currently. But he wants to grow closer to EU. But WHAT this French FM has suggested does give Carney and Canada leverage as we negotiate with Trump for a new CUSMA.
What Carney says publicly doesn't always seem to reflect what Carney is actually doing behind the scenes. Unfortunately, I understand why Trump's childish reactionary politics make such dishonestly and subterfuge necessary because we are very vulnerable to his tantrums, and enduring his petulant tantrums is counterproductive to the effort of actually getting us to the position where we no longer have to suffer from his tantrums anymore.
I doubt that Carney is actually trying to get us to join the EU right now. He would need a strong public mandate to do something like that, and right now he doesn’t have that
We should definitely have closer relationships with the EU. But we should not join outright. We don't need the Euro and we definitely don't need the European Stability and Growth Pact. The Canadian economy should not get too tired up to the European one. We are not the UK, we don't need this, it would be a weight not a booster. And I'm saying this as a dual Canadian-EU citizen.
oh god i hope so, it would put Donald Canada threats to rest (ok maybe not rest but it'd hold no weight anymore) and put us in a way stronger negotiation potion with the USA when donald is finally gone and begins putting itself back together.
At this point, if he freaks and decides to liberate us, I'm reasonably confident our primary schools' elite kamikaze kite flying squadron would be enough to embarrass them.
Look at how much of a hot button issue immigration has been in Canada already over recent years.
How's the "join the EU" discourse going to go when Canadians realize it would mean any of the 450 million European citizens could move to Canada as they wished?
How about when Canadians realize Brussels would control the distribution of asylum seekers for the whole EU and could decide to just send whatever number of migrants Brussels deemed appropriate from the migrant crisis Europe has been facing and that will no doubt grow as climate change and war drive more migration in Eurasia?
That's just one example, but my guess is that Canadians may like the sound of joining the EU because we like Europe, but the idea would tarnish pretty quickly when looking into all the details.
Huh, my take is the exact inverse. The EU is structurally averse to external immigration in almost all its aspects, whereas we are a constitutionally multicultural settler society with a long term structural reliance on immigration.
The recent course-correction to lower immigration levels is just that, a correction to a larger more long term direction without changing the fundamentals of that direction. We need to be able to have immigration policies that are much more open than what the Europeans can tolerate.
After joining the EU, it would open free movement to work and live in Canada to 450 million Europeans who can't do that now. How many would want to move to Canada? I don't know, but as many as wanted to come, and Canada would have no point system anymore to decide who gets in. The point system has been the core element of Canada's management of immigration and long-term cultural and workforce composition. Turning over the keys to someone else is a huge ask, especially when there is so much political attention on finding the right mix.
The migrant issue is also about loss of control, but even more politically untenable.
Canada has a very high level of control over refugee and migrant admittance now, and we don't have much of a migrant issue in Canada at all. That's primarily because our only border is shared with the US. Join the EU and we basically share the EU's migrant crisis. Under the new laws, distribution of migrants is up to Brussels, and there's a penalty of something like €20,000 per migrant that you choose not to accept. We can't say for sure how bad the migrant crisis will get in coming years, but it's expected to get substantially worse for Europe. So, we would give up our current highly-controlled situation and end up effectively sharing the challenges of having borders with the MENA region. That is not a politically winning proposition in Canada.
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nbailey@lemmy.ca · 37 pts · 150d
The hilarious irony is that if we did this, Quebec would have to change all their “Arrêt” signs to “Stop” to comply with EU signage standards
ikidd@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 150d
They'll be in full Brexit before that happens. Quexit?
Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 150d
Becxit
RandAlThor@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 150d
Carney said this is not an option he's pushing for currently. But he wants to grow closer to EU. But WHAT this French FM has suggested does give Carney and Canada leverage as we negotiate with Trump for a new CUSMA.
cecilkorik@piefed.ca · 12 pts · 150d
What Carney says publicly doesn't always seem to reflect what Carney is actually doing behind the scenes. Unfortunately, I understand why Trump's childish reactionary politics make such dishonestly and subterfuge necessary because we are very vulnerable to his tantrums, and enduring his petulant tantrums is counterproductive to the effort of actually getting us to the position where we no longer have to suffer from his tantrums anymore.
a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 149d
I doubt that Carney is actually trying to get us to join the EU right now. He would need a strong public mandate to do something like that, and right now he doesn’t have that
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 150d
Oui oui oui, allons-y!!
That would be great for both Canada and the EU!
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 150d
WWT. Let's not get ahead of ourselves. We hope it'd be better for the EU too.
Sepia@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 150d
As a European, I am totally convinced it would be much better for the EU too.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 149d
We should definitely have closer relationships with the EU. But we should not join outright. We don't need the Euro and we definitely don't need the European Stability and Growth Pact. The Canadian economy should not get too tired up to the European one. We are not the UK, we don't need this, it would be a weight not a booster. And I'm saying this as a dual Canadian-EU citizen.
kent_eh@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 148d
But the GPDR would be nice to be part of.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 148d
AFAIK, there is nothing that holds us back from passing a law that says "GDPR applies to Canada".
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 150d
oh god i hope so, it would put Donald Canada threats to rest (ok maybe not rest but it'd hold no weight anymore) and put us in a way stronger negotiation potion with the USA when donald is finally gone and begins putting itself back together.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 150d
This is good because it hints there is more going on behind the scenes, which must make Trump nervous.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 150d
At this point, if he freaks and decides to liberate us, I'm reasonably confident our primary schools' elite kamikaze kite flying squadron would be enough to embarrass them.
DarylInCanada@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 150d
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 150d
I would love that.
maplesaga@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 150d
AGM@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 149d
Look at how much of a hot button issue immigration has been in Canada already over recent years.
How's the "join the EU" discourse going to go when Canadians realize it would mean any of the 450 million European citizens could move to Canada as they wished?
How about when Canadians realize Brussels would control the distribution of asylum seekers for the whole EU and could decide to just send whatever number of migrants Brussels deemed appropriate from the migrant crisis Europe has been facing and that will no doubt grow as climate change and war drive more migration in Eurasia?
That's just one example, but my guess is that Canadians may like the sound of joining the EU because we like Europe, but the idea would tarnish pretty quickly when looking into all the details.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 149d
Huh, my take is the exact inverse. The EU is structurally averse to external immigration in almost all its aspects, whereas we are a constitutionally multicultural settler society with a long term structural reliance on immigration.
The recent course-correction to lower immigration levels is just that, a correction to a larger more long term direction without changing the fundamentals of that direction. We need to be able to have immigration policies that are much more open than what the Europeans can tolerate.
AGM@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 148d
The point is the loss of control.
After joining the EU, it would open free movement to work and live in Canada to 450 million Europeans who can't do that now. How many would want to move to Canada? I don't know, but as many as wanted to come, and Canada would have no point system anymore to decide who gets in. The point system has been the core element of Canada's management of immigration and long-term cultural and workforce composition. Turning over the keys to someone else is a huge ask, especially when there is so much political attention on finding the right mix.
The migrant issue is also about loss of control, but even more politically untenable.
Canada has a very high level of control over refugee and migrant admittance now, and we don't have much of a migrant issue in Canada at all. That's primarily because our only border is shared with the US. Join the EU and we basically share the EU's migrant crisis. Under the new laws, distribution of migrants is up to Brussels, and there's a penalty of something like €20,000 per migrant that you choose not to accept. We can't say for sure how bad the migrant crisis will get in coming years, but it's expected to get substantially worse for Europe. So, we would give up our current highly-controlled situation and end up effectively sharing the challenges of having borders with the MENA region. That is not a politically winning proposition in Canada.
theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 148d
That's what's funny. We both agree that joining the EU is losing control.
You want that control to stay in Canada because you want to keep people out and you think the EU will force us to let them in.
I want that control to stay in Canada because I want to bring people in and I think the EU will force us to keep them out.
We arrive at the same position (Canada must retain control) from precisely inverse paths.
So we agree on what Canada's EU policy should be. And we are in diametric disagreement about what Canada's immigration policy should be.
AGM@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 148d
I was writing why I think it's politically untenable and won't be accepted by Canadians, not about my own views of immigration.