He has never been to Canada but he loves the country. “To me, it’s a dream of freedom and a better America,” Joachim Streit, a member of the liberal Renew group, told Euronews. “A dream of emigrants which many others have lived out.”
Greece has claims over Cyprus and the Caribbean colonies are, well, colonies. People already don’t like when other provinces have a say in how theirs is run- now imagine it’s a bloc of countries across an ocean that decide something can’t happen.
I’m more interested in how many Canadians are open to the realistic option- expanding the trade agreement currently in place. Largely it’s been balanced but actually joining threatens struggling industry and domestic manufacturing. We’ve already seen heavy manufacturing largely move to Mexico and Asia.
Then there’s the fisheries, which already has problems with quota disputes and First Nations facing violence for acting upon treaty rights to resources. Adding fishing fleets of multiple other countries would actually doom small Atlantic Canadian fishing communities.
Moving away from the US while expanding connections with others instead is a good idea, but more so in the ways further down in the article than EU membership.