Canada is looking for a bigger security role in Asia and has made forging deeper ties with Japan and South Korea a priority. As its defence commitments expand at home and overseas the country is expanding military spending.
“Next year, my defence budget will rise by 27% over this year, and, frankly, in the next three or four years, our defence spending will triple,” Blair said.
Sorry to be a debbie downer here. I’d really love for that to be the case as well.
Alas, there’s precedent for getting rejected for not being European enough: https://notesonliberty.com/2016/04/05/when-europe-rejected-morocco/
As Canada is on a continent even further from the continent of Europe than Morocco was, it’s sadly very easy to see a rejection on those grounds alone.
And being next to Greenland doesn’t help, as Greenland isn’t part of the EU, https://www.thedanishparliament.dk/en/eu-information-centre/greenland-and-the-faroe-islands
Likewise, there’s a source here that says that Saint Pierre and Miquelon is also not part of the EU, https://www.ieom.fr/IMG/pdf/l_outre-mer_francais_et_l_euro_-_bdf_bm_186_etu_7_version_anglaise.pdf
…we have Montreal?
I love Montreal!
Come visit, we have bagels!
Fine then, we’ll start our own EU with beavers and blow!
I can not find a reference now but I thought back in the day (almost a decade ago now) one of the goals of the Trans-Pacific Partnership would have been to lead to a union or confederation between it’s members, akin to how the European Steel and Coal Community eventually became the European Union.
We can ask to join Schengen though, like Iceland.