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**LSg44PDu** · 05-08-2007, 04:33 PM

Originally posted by Ecthy
Canada is not of geopolitical or economic interest to the EU unless we want to invade the US.

A free trade agreement with Canada and the EU would make Canada the richest countryon Earth within 2 seconds. I doubt that, but it certainly wouldnt hurt.

But Turkey already has an FTA with the EU, no? Canada couldnt JOIN the EU, while belonging to NAFTA, since there are inconsistencies between the treaties on trade provisions - to follow one, theyd violate the other. And leaving NAFTA would hurt them far more than joining the EU would help them. We've been over this wrt Quebec, and, in other direction, with the UK. Membership will follow trade, and trade still heavily follows geographic proximity.

05-08-2007, 04:33 PM	#12
LSg44PDu Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 440 Senior Member	Originally posted by Ecthy Canada is not of geopolitical or economic interest to the EU unless we want to invade the US. A free trade agreement with Canada and the EU would make Canada the richest countryon Earth within 2 seconds. I doubt that, but it certainly wouldnt hurt. But Turkey already has an FTA with the EU, no? Canada couldnt JOIN the EU, while belonging to NAFTA, since there are inconsistencies between the treaties on trade provisions - to follow one, theyd violate the other. And leaving NAFTA would hurt them far more than joining the EU would help them. We've been over this wrt Quebec, and, in other direction, with the UK. Membership will follow trade, and trade still heavily follows geographic proximity.
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