We should develop much closer commercial and other ties (eg regulatory) with the EU but Canada should not outright join. We don’t need the Euro and we don’t need the European Stability and Growth Pact. Lower as many barriers, but we have to keep control of our basic economic policy levers.
Edit: by the way, after looking it up, I’m finding that EU rules about “State Aid” would make the new NDP platform (Avi Lewis campaigned on public options and Crown corporations for various sectors, and buy-canadian rules to protect workers during the green transition) infeasible. So… no, I’m not interested in joining an economic bloc that makes democratic socialism functionally impossible.
The UK was in, fucked up and crashed out. It also has some very weird peculiarities due to the Good Friday Agreement.
I suspect a version of the Swiss model is probably best for Canada, with high integration and Schengen membership but done very granularly on a bilateral basis.
We should develop much closer commercial and other ties (eg regulatory) with the EU but Canada should not outright join. We don’t need the Euro and we don’t need the European Stability and Growth Pact. Lower as many barriers, but we have to keep control of our basic economic policy levers.
Edit: by the way, after looking it up, I’m finding that EU rules about “State Aid” would make the new NDP platform (Avi Lewis campaigned on public options and Crown corporations for various sectors, and buy-canadian rules to protect workers during the green transition) infeasible. So… no, I’m not interested in joining an economic bloc that makes democratic socialism functionally impossible.
Similar to the deal the UK got?
The UK was in, fucked up and crashed out. It also has some very weird peculiarities due to the Good Friday Agreement.
I suspect a version of the Swiss model is probably best for Canada, with high integration and Schengen membership but done very granularly on a bilateral basis.
Edit, I changed my mind, see above.