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Yeah, I would definitely appreciate it! I like the Canadians.
Edit: Cbviously Canadians want it too: https://feddit.org/post/7162395
I literally screamed OH SHIT! as I saw this
As a Canadian I feel like this would be such a huge win for us.
Gonna be real the NAFTA 2.0/USMCA trade agreement seems shaky at best, horrendously unstable at worst so maintaining current trade relations doesn't seem sustainable unfortunately.
This would be a nightmare for Canada. Their regulations are all aligned with the US. Products would need to be adjusted, processes would need to be changed, entire product stocks would need to be offloaded. And it would make lots of Canadian products unexportable to the US.
Even something as simple as eggs have incompatible regulations in Europe and North America.
Am American, would love Canada to go to EU standards and have America suffer of follow suit.
Yeah, I was thinking that, if Canada's standards are so similar to the US's, the problem is adjusting to the new ones, and not the difference between them per se.
There is a UKCA standard that has likely aligned some of Canadaβs goods with EU regulation (given the UKβs current close alignment to EU regs).
Well washing the natural protection layers off from eggs and then having to cool them is pretty stupid, so it's obvious who should adjust their standards
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.
Products would need to be adjusted
O no what a nightmare
When your economy is geared to exporting mostly to a country that will not accept products made according to the new rules it is.
For the regulations, I think slowly changing them to fit to EU standards, so industries can catch up, would be the best.
As for exports towards the US, aren't there already institutions (like the Trade and Technology Council) used by US and EU for trade to be efficient despite regulation and standard diferences?
Of course, I don't much about anything, so I'm mostly throwing stuff at the wall and see what sticks.
Would Canada be obliged to switch to 230V mains electricity, or could it keep 110V?
Guyana has 120/240V 50/60Hz depending on where you are so, no, not even France has a unified grid.
I didn't even think about that one as an effective barrier to trade. That would be a shit show of epic proportions. The most realistic solution would be to make all products dual voltage to protect the single market, either directly or through a transformer in their power cable, but that would increase costs for everyone.
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.
It's not about selling electricity, it's about having a single market for electrical devices. There's no single market if most products don't work in one country. Even different AC plugs are only allowed because adapters are cheap and using different plugs for Ireland and Italy is a minor change in the production line.
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.
You do realize that many companies offer multiple or variable power supplies addressing different input voltages and frequencies, right? Most consumer electronics are functionally identical, they just have a varying types of charging cable mains adapters. Larger appliances and tools are a different story, but more manufacturers are offering variability in their equipment.
Most and all are different things.
If you want to be pedantic, have at it.
Italy and Denmark are only different for earthed plugs, IIRC. Outside of the former British Empire, unearthed plugs within the EU are standard.
Nah Italian sockets have a different prong spacing. It's close enough for europlugs to fit but those are only for low amperage applications.
If only it was realistic to export electricity from Canada to the EU.
It's theoretically possible with HVDC (high voltage direct current), as the AC -> DC -> AC transmission conversion allows linked grids to not have their AC waves synced, though that distance would probably be stretching the boundaries of distance.
Wait, so would this be in exchange for Greenland?
/S