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Canada in talks about joining expanded AUKUS, defence chief Blair says (www.reuters.com)
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

...we have Montreal?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I love Montreal!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Come visit, we have bagels!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fine then, we'll start our own EU with beavers and blow!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

We can ask to join Schengen though, like Iceland.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Ah, that's brilliant! The dream is back on.