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1. Chance-Device · 1789547044 · focus · HN ↗

   Stranger than fiction.

   1. andy_ppp · 1789547753 · focus · HN ↗

      Why? Seems the US doesn't like democracy anymore and the EU for all its faults still does. I can see Japan joining too and potentially South Korea, Philippines, and others who are concerned about the state of the world and want to work together rather than drive the world apart.

      1. Chance-Device · 1789549729 · focus · HN ↗

         If I’d said to you last year “Hey! I bet Canada is going to join the EU! No, of course not as charter-violating full member, as a newly invented ‘associate member’!” You’d probably have said “That’s both crazy and oddly specific, the chances of that have to be approaching zero”.

         That’s why.

         1. ben_w · 1789552232 · focus · HN ↗

            Yes but also "associate member" is, despite specificity, less surprising than full membership would have been.

            Same as economic gravity meant that Brexit didn't disconnect UK from EU it only made trade harder, neither this kind of deal nor full membership can be much more than a band-aid for Trump's BS, it won't fully compensate for the harm he and his administration are doing to Canada.

         2. david-gpu · 1789557286 · focus · HN ↗

            Further cooperation between the EU and Canada has been talked about for a decade or so (see CETA). Just because it is news to you, it doesn't mean it is news.

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