For one, unlike the United States, countries can leave the EU.
See: Brexit
this post was submitted on 05 Feb 2026
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Maybe let them join Eurovision first and see how that goes. Always a good judge of character.
Here's a few Canadian that went to Eurovision
Céline Dion represented Switzerland in '98 and won.
Natasha St-Pier represented France and made it to 4th place in 2001.
Annie Cotton, Switzerland, 3rd place in '93.
Trump: "Canada lives because of the United States."
That is so disgusting, and very telling about the way Trump thinks. Unfortunately a lot of Americans think like that, might makes right.
But what we see today is that Trumps sociopathic methods to politics are rejected by the world, same as Putin is rejected by Ukraine and the coalition of the willing.
We will stand up to bullies, even if we are smaller. And many of the biggest per capita helpers of Ukraine are the smallest countries.
USA is digging their own grave behaving like they do now, while when they were trustworthy and about cooperation and alliances, USA was the mightiest power in the world. That ship has sailed now, USA will never again take the position they had before Trump was elected the first time.
Canada is welcome to join EU IMO. But they are of course also welcome to stay independent, whatever way that goes, Europe is all for mutually beneficial cooperation with Canada. There are no demands that Canada needs to pay EU for EU to be nice to Canada.
Cooperation is good, Canada and EU both know that. Most sane leaders do. Only authoritarian sociopathic governments want to be bribed to cooperate. But they may destroy you even if you bribe them.
As a European, I'd reject Canada joining the EU. It's not in nor near Europe at all, and bordering the US gives me the creeps.
An associate membership however, would in my opinion be a fair option. I'm opposed to those monstertrucks being imported and want to protect our farmers - I fear that if we antagonise them too much, we will get the far-right growing. We must first defeat fascism within Europe and walk toward the left, and heavily cooperate militarily with democratic allies.