Should Canada become a member of the EU?

No one is disputing Canada has land....the issue is that 80% of it is INHOSPITABLE. I'd like to see someone try to put down a farm on the Canadian Shield or in the tundra.

Tundra might be possible if global warming speeds up but right now? Nope.

The other 20% already has more than enough people without infringing on space.

I wasn't trying to "educate" you on Europe but to point out to you that Switzerland being part of the EU isn't as overwhelming as you make it out to be. It was a close vote.

My main issue with the whole concept of the EU is that people can come and go as they please. Essentially the EU is one large country. People from the EU can come here to Britain, live off the welfare state and give the money to their families back home. People from the EU aren't under immigration control yet people like me who come to work and subsequently pay taxes have to be under immigration control AND can't benefit from some of the services because of that. It takes away from the people who NEED those services.

The other thing that rather amuses me is the fact that terrorism is such a topic over here, yet anyone can cross through any country in the EU without getting stopped. How is that stopping terrorists?? It's not, it's giving them free reign to go wherever they please knowing that there's no border controls.

I don't see how Canada will be independent upon joining the EU, she'll just get assimilated like all the other countries are. The only power is Brussels.

Here, you liar, Gas prices in Europe.

Notice: Holland: Euro 1.53
Poland: Euro 1.17

http://www.aaroadwatch.ie/eupetrolprices/

You don't pay road taxes as we do in Holland. We are unique in the world with it... Yippie.

Assimilated in the EU? To what? Europe isn't one mainstream culture, it is over than 30 cultures!

Canada is being assimilated to the USA. Joining the EU would cut of some of America's influence in Canada. Today's Canada-USA coop is like this:

USA says, Canada gives it's opinion on what the USA said but the USA doesn't give a shit about it, because Canada is ten times less populated.

The US president is the boss in America. Our Prime Minister isn't an equal partner for him. If you think he is that is just an illusion.

In the EU Canada would be an equal member, or an very important one thanks to Canada's uniqueness. The EU would need Canada so it would listen to it more carefully than the US does. The EU would respect Canada more than the US do.

Joining the EU would please Quebec, so what would destroy the threat of separation. A union with the Americans would strengthen the separatist movement and make Canada fall apart. I don't that.

Canada has to choose between:
-Her decisions made by the Americans in Washington D.C
-Her decisions made by her and EU members states in Brussels.

No third option. Hey, I would prefer Canada to be fully independent from the US and EU, but with our population it is impossible.

First of all Greenland belongs to Denmark, so it makes sense that it belongs to the EU. However, last time I checked Canada is not part of Europe, so why join the EU? If the goal is greater trade and other economic benefits, why not just open more trade with things the way they are and put less emphasis on the US?

And here I was thinking that I finally stumbled upon a decent read. Oops. Looks like nothing much changes.