this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2025
172 points (100.0% liked)

Canada

9064 readers
1639 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Related Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities

Sorted alphabetically by city name.


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL): incomplete

Football (CFL): incomplete

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Schools / Universities

Sorted by province, then by total full-time enrolment.


💵 Finance, Shopping, Sales


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social / Culture


Rules

  1. Keep the original title when submitting an article. You can put your own commentary in the body of the post or in the comment section.

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage: lemmy.ca


founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Yes, Canada has a legal path to E.U. membership – but would it want this?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago (26 children)

I'm in. I'll miss the Loonie, but Europe's looking pretty good these days.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (21 children)

Same. I wouldn't mind switching to the Euro, but our coins are really cool and nostalgic for me. It would be nice if there were a way to keep them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

UK did exactly that. They never swapped their pound with euro. I'm all for it!

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

They were a founding member and got a special carve-out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Theoretically, there's nothing stopping any new country from joining getting a carve-out. You just need everyone to agree to it. And tbh, getting them to agree to let Canada continue using the Canadian Dollar is probably a much smaller ask than getting them to let a North American country into the European Union.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Carve-outs of the rules have way more practical implications than just making the EU name slightly ironic, though. Asking for both just seems rude to me, but I could be wrong.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (18 replies)
load more comments (22 replies)