New polling suggests a majority of Canadians think Canada ought to explore joining the European Union at a fraught time for geopolitical relations.
A survey of 4,000 people conducted by Spark Advocacy’s polling arm in March found that one in four respondents thought it would be a good idea for Canada to formally join the economic and political bloc of European nations.
A further 58 per cent indicated it was a proposal worth exploring further, while the remainder felt it was a bad idea.
Spark’s chief strategy officer Bruce Anderson says the survey suggests Canadians are increasingly open to finding ways to buck Canada’s reliance on the United States after more than a year of tariffs under U.S. President Donald Trump’s second administration.
France’s foreign minister last month openly floated the idea of Canada joining the EU, while Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he’s looking to deepen trade and security ties with the continent but not as a formal member of the bloc.
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I agree. Canada has been making some solid strategic trade deals without the EU. I don’t know if joining them right now would make us stronger in the long run. I can see some benefits, but it also limits what we can do.
That said, I wouldn’t mind being joined with the Euro. Canada saw benefits from keeping the CAD lower for trades with the US. Now that the US is becoming Gilead and pissing off the world, do we need to keep CAD lower? Does using the Euro help trade deals? I don’t know the answer to those questions.
I think right now Canada should hold position, continue build bridges that bypass the USA, and focus on becoming the EUs BFF. The USAs downfall is happening much quicker then I think people expected, and it’s only going to get worse. I think we’ll look better if we stand our ground on our own feet right now.
Canada and Greenland has sort of become the darlings of the world for giving Trump the finger. We can use that to our advantage.