Europe

At this point I feel like Canada could only join if:

1. Canada did a lot of work to meet the regulations as set forth by the EU.
2. Canada had successfully rerouted the majority of it's trade to EU members.

If Canada were to try to join the EU at this time, something tells me the US government would call that an "attack" of some kind, and would hurt Canada with tariffs greater than what was just threatened, or something worse than tariffs. Furthermore, if Canada started trading the majority of its oil and gas to the EU, this would create big fucking problems for the US, which would again, cause the US to create problems for Canada. Furthermore, this would probably kneecap Russian gas sales to the EU, so Russia would also suddenly be working it's ass off to prevent such a thing at all costs.

I suppose it is possible, but there is an enormous amount of work that would need to be implemented, so I don't expect it would happen any time soon.

Even if it was possible, wouldn't it require a huge amount of work on the Canadian side to implement the European level of regulations?

Well they fucked up the thumbnail, unless Vancouver island and the other islands on the west coast arent allowed to join

Consumer protections and laws against engineered obsolescence? Yes, please!

As a Canadian, absolutely. Most of the relational downsides have dropped away at this point, even - Trump wants a less porous border and less trade. CBC did an article on this recently, though, and basically said while possible it would be too mean to Bosnia for the EU to even consider, on their end.

At the very least, we need a separate defence pact with Europe in case Trump rethinks his annexation strategy, and should give Europe access to whatever trees and cool rocks it wants in return.

Well Canada already has borders with France & Denmark if I recall correctly

As a Canadian I'd be in favour of starting with joining the Schengen zone. A currency union might be a hard sell as our economy benefits from being able to float the dollar for exports, but it would probably still be a net benefit once trade with the rest of the EU improved and regulations got normalized.

Transitioning should start with more and tighter trade links. Working toward harmonizing rules and dropping tariffs. There'd be a lot of sticking points.

I can't say anything about this topic in particular. But I saw this link to an overview what EU is doing for its members on Lemmy yesterday. Which could be interesting for you as well.

Wouldn't that mean that the borders to the USA would be closed or more strictly controlled? As far i know, US Citizens need a visa to enter the EU.

Oui

If it's possible and they want to I would greatly welcome them.

ibx2cat makes a great point in that we should fix our interprovincial trade and logistics before joining the EU👍

Only if we got to keep the loonie

Yes, with regards, from Kentucky.

I was joking about this in another thread.