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Half-joking comments about Canada joining the bloc have become common as Ottawa adapts to its fraying relationship with the United States.
France’s foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot has floated the idea that Canada could one day join the European Union, using the transatlantic ally as a striking example of the bloc’s global appeal.
Speaking at the Europe 2026 conference in Berlin alongside his German counterpart Johann Wadephul, Barrot argued that the EU is increasingly attracting partners far beyond its borders as geopolitical tensions soar.
Barrot’s Canada remark was not presented as a concrete policy proposal, but rather as part of a broader argument that the EU is emerging as a “third superpower” capable of balancing the rivalry between the United States and China.
Carney is just the current PM. Let’s see what the public thinks and if any party will put this in their program.
More Canadians are for it than against it, by a 10 point margin.
I think most surveys at this point indicate that Canadians look at their relationship with Europe positively rather than being a true indication that we want to join.
Personally, I’d love to deepen our ties with European trade and I’m downright jealous of your free tuition, but I’m not convinced that Canada IN the EU is the correct decision.
wait until they realize they’ll get immigration from balkaners. They’ll leave as quick as farrage after the brexit vote
Canada has become a two party system, so the choice is PM Carney or Governor Poilievre.