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It is the pure bad luck of geography that Canada finds itself a neighbour of the United States while the nutty right wing facists are in control and unless the tectonic plates are going into overdrive soon, there is nothing they can do about it but they have been making eyes at the EU recently and the EU have been winking and playing footsie straight back at them.
With the sex pest (probable) pedophile in the White House handing out tariffs and generally treating Canada the same way as he does Moscow Hotel mattresses, last month, France’s foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot floated the idea that Canada could one day join the European Union, with Finnish president Alexander Stubb likewise suggesting to Canadian prime minister Mark Carney that he should think about joining the EU.
In a February 2026, a poll conducted by Abacus Data found that 48% of Canadians support Canada becoming a member of the EU and that the feeling is reciprocated on our side of the Atlantic with the five largest EU member states, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Spain, all saying that they would support admitting Canada to the European Union.
The most obvious obstacle to Canadian accession to the EU is geography and Article 49 of the Treaty on European Union limits membership to 'European states' which is a problem for a North American country.
That said Canada does have partnerships with the EU such as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) which lowers tariffs, expands market access and created mechanisms for regulatory cooperation and investment protection and there are nations outside of the EU (Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and to some degree the UK) who have treaties signed with the EU so things are possible outside of actual membership.
Another option could be to expand the Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA) between Canada and the EU which was signed in 2016, and was designed to 'deepen and broaden bilateral cooperation on a wide range of issues such as international peace and security, counter-terrorism, human rights and nuclear non-proliferation, clean energy and climate change, migration and peaceful pluralism, sustainable development, and innovation'.
Obviously opening the EU up to nations outside of Europe could be a sore point and bring all sorts of problems but i'd be open to it, just as long as it doesn't give the a free pass to the Eurovision Song Contest, that would be a step too far for the nation that gave us Bryan Adams and Justin Bieber.