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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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[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 27 points 10 months ago (10 children)

My personal dream is that we'd join the EU since a lot of our agriculture shit would be in high demand and they're more politically stable than being attached to the US at the hip but, honestly, any additional economic diversity is welcome. America might elect Trump and it that fucker puts up a 20% tariff a large portion of our economy would be fucked overnight.

[–] Beaver@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago (8 children)

Canada borders Denmark and France so there is a good argument for it. Canada could double the size of the EU.

[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 4 points 10 months ago (7 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

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] abff08f4813c@j4vcdedmiokf56h3ho4t62mlku.srv.us 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

Come visit, we have bagels!

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