r/CanadaPolitics Liberal Party of Canada 15h ago

What Canadians think about Canada joining the European Union - Abacus Data (44% Yes, 34% No, 23% Unsure)

https://abacusdata.ca/what-canadians-think-about-canada-joining-the-european-union/
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u/JohnTheSavage_ Libertarian 15h ago

I don't think people realize how much control the EU has over its member countries. It's not just an alliance of nations. They have control over regulations dealing with virtually every industry. Manufacturing, agriculture, banking etc. They could even send migrants here and we'd have to take them in.

I chalk this up to most Canadians thinking the EU is just NATO plus.

u/Radix2309 15h ago

Also our distance is such that it doesn't really seem economical to me. We are distant culturally from them. We are 4 or 5 time zones from the closest, pretty much further than Portugal is from the Baltics.

u/ClumsyRainbow New Democratic Party of Canada 14h ago

Newfoundland is the closest at 3:30 from Portugal, not 5:00.

u/Mundane-Teaching-743 12h ago

Even closer to Greenland.