All for this.

How about the US just becomes provinces 14-64? I'll gladly take anything else.
- Nah sorry we're not taking the red states. They can be their own Christofascist hell elsewhere.
  
  Can I raise you the proposal of Canada and Jesusland

Wouldn’t mind it one bit

At a minimum any states bordering Canada, including those bordering the 4 Great Lakes shared with Canada, should get a vote of which country to go with.
Pennsylvania is 100% included, and honestly if Indiana and Illinois go for it despite being on the “wrong” Great Lake, I’m not going to complain.
- You can give us Buffalo any day. I love that city so much.

Türkiye is gonna be pissed.

The EU 🇪🇺 is more than welcome to include Canada 🇨🇦 as the 28th member state 🤝

Might be some geographical issues (perhaps of the ocean variety) with this proposal
- Well, Ireland is separated from the rest of the continent by ocean. Canada is just a slightly bigger island, slightly further away...
  
  There is French territory just off the coast of Newfoundland too (see Saint Pierre and Miquelon), also Denmark is right next door because of Greenland. So while still pretty far fetched, there is some precedent for European territory in North America.
  
  Ireland is separated from the rest of the continent by ocean.
  The Celtic Sea is not an ocean.
- Maybe canada can be the first member of a post-European EU. I guess we'll need a new name.
  
  Cyprus is already the first non-European EU member.
  
  White supremacist imperialist conglomerate (non-US version)?
  
  Earth United!
  
  Earthed Union the EU.

Can we Philadelphians join?
👀
- No, you guys know what you've done
- Any reasons why these two neighborhoods go against the grain? Are they the posh suburbs?
- As someone from a South Jersey suburb of Philly: take me with you!

Can’t we just harvest the states that want to leave?

New update just dropped
- Ya know, when you put it that way
- That doesn't look as absurd as it might seem at first!
  
  especially once the north pole melts
- I don't see Erdogan being very happy about this map tho
  
  Erdogan doesn't care about Turkish EU membership.

- Why are non-European countries even allowed to participate?
  
  Because Australia were mega fans, so they invited us :3
  
  All countries associated with the European Broacast Union can participate.
  Brazil, Peru, Japan, India, and even China and the US could participate too.
  Russia and Lybia used to be part of the EBU but they were suspended. They know what they did.
  
  Eurovision is organised by the European Broadcasting Union, which includes basically all countries in the European Broadcasting Area (basically Europe + all of the Mediterranean). Those include Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Armenia, etc. They have always been allowed to participate. Australia is an outlier. They just got a special invitation.
- Are we going to be called anti-Semitic?
  
  Aren’t we anyways? Who cares at this point. Nazi, antisemitic… Russophobe. I’ve been all of these lol. I’ve even been called a homophobe even tho I am literally gay.
- This is genius!

I'm super jealous because I've wanted to have Canadian citizenship since back in my late teens / early adulthood when I realized that there was already a version of America that actually lived up to American ideals and which offered same-sex marriage as well as universal healthcare. That weed and apparently codeine are legal there make it so much more bittersweet.
The only people I've known personally to get citizenship are those who married a Canadian citizen. Which sucks for me because I'm already happily partnered and there's no way I'd give that up for anything, not even Canadian citizenship, awesome and appealing as it is.
- Legal marriage and having a life partner are not the same thing. I'll marry you and my partner will marry your partner, no big deal.
- Maybe if/when the US invades, if we fight for Canada they'll give us citizenship.
  
  FWIW I obviously don’t have the power to approve that but I would certainly vote to make that a thing!
- I had an American friend who married a Canadian. It took SO much work to get her permanent resident card, like a lawyer and everything.
- Unfortunately, Canada has MAID, and also likes to deny healthcare to natives in the hopes that they will just die.
  
  Fortunately, Canada has MAID. Unfortunately, Canada has MAID in place of meaningful care.
  
  Shocking. Do you have a source for that?

As a European, I think it would be pretty funny if, after Brexit, the other parts of the former Empire joined the EU.
But at least right now, membership is probably more of a meme - some solid cooperation and shared institutions would be amazing, though.
- EU already said this can't work. It said in the rules only European countries can join the EU. But something can be worked out, no doubt.
  
  Membership of the European Economic Area - same as Norway - for example.
  Comes with being part of the EU Internal Market, Freedom Of Movement (both ways, of course) and exceptions in a couple of areas (such as fishing rights not being decided by the EU, which I suspect is something that Canada would rather have) but without voting power within the EU.
  
  ~~European~~ Worldwide Union
  
  You have to be "substantially European", which includes Cyprus, which is fully in Asia and half Turkish. Also, Greenland and to a degree Iceland aren't geographically European.
  
  Canada becomes a France province, easy.

Well, we do share a land border with Denmark. Sooooo…. we’re practically European already!
- And France (Saint Pierre) I think? Thanks CBC Gem!
  
  Saint Pierre and Miquelon, right by Newfoundland. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pierre_and_Miquelon
  
  That's a sea border, but the idea is the same.
  In fact, the distance between the shores of Newfoundland and St. Pierre and Miquelon is shorter than the width of the English Channel at the Straits of Dover (25km vs 34km).

Guys guys guys, let's be good friends with the EU, let's even adopt some of their best policies, but honestly, they also have some baggage we don't need.
- Worth it.
- Believe me, we don't want Orban either..
- I just want to be sovereign. How is that so hard for people to understand?
  
  EU members are all sovereign, brexiter.
- Ya both those prospects seem "Colonial"

Let's just rename the EU to "United Earth" like in Star Trek, since Australia is practically in it already on account of being in Eurovision.
That way we don't need to change the initials, just swap them.
- Earth United would be better, no need to even change the merch.
  
  Of course, all of these variations will still be different/inverted in french, which is already in the Union Européenne (UE) today.
  
  That's the soccer team.

Well, if Canada can take part in the Eurovision song contest, they might as well join the EU.
- Everyone knows supreme executive power is derived from Eurovision.
- Fucking Celine Dion
  https://youtu.be/FmhMVlyBWLQ

#canadentry

Let the GOP force them to become a state. They'd get 2 senate seats and more electoral college votes and congressional seats than any other state. Just in time for the Dems to run on deannexing Canada.
- I'm a bad feeling they'd Puerto Rico us
  
  Territories are still citizens, who can vote when they reside in states. If 2-3% of Canada immigrated, that's 1 million people, which would shift the balance in a lot of places.
  Of course, even if you shifted 10 seats in the Senate, the democrats would probably give republicans half the budget and let them write their own bills in the name of bipartisanship (again), and you'd quickly become as hopeless as the average american is in the democrats helping them.
  
  You are 100% correct.
- Actually, no, they wouldn’t. They would have ZERO rights.

Yes please, I will vote to support this.

When "the big one™" hits, can California join either of y'all?
- Absolutely but only if you drop the Maga people off in Utah on the way out.

Also see:
Instead of being the 51st state, let's become the 28th EU Member. If Canada joins the EU, Canadian representatives to the European Parliament would need to be elected via proportional representation🍁
- I'm not sure why I keep seeing this posted, like it's some sort of gotcha. It doesn't mean our other elections would have to change, just the brand new representatives to the EU.
  The vote for liberal leadership used Preferential Voting where you could indicate more than one preference.
  
  It's not about being a "gotcha" - it's about demonstrating a pathway to better democratic representation.
  You're right that EU membership would only require PR for European Parliament representatives initially. However, this would create several significant opportunities:
  Practical demonstration: Canadians would experience firsthand how an electoral system that ensures every vote counts actually works, rather than just hearing theoretical arguments.
  Institutional precedent: Once PR is successfully implemented for one electoral body, the argument that it's "too complex" or "un-Canadian" becomes much harder to maintain.
  Democratic legitimacy gap: Having representatives to the EU Parliament elected through PR while our own MPs are chosen through FPTP would create an obvious legitimacy contrast that would be difficult to justify.
  The Liberal leadership vote using preferential voting actually supports this point. Internal party processes already recognize the limitations of FPTP - they just don't extend those same democratic principles to the general electorate. In fact, all parties, even the Conservatives, use superior electoral systems to FPTP.
  The reality is that 76% of Canadians support electoral reform according to recent polling, but our major parties benefit from maintaining a system that systematically discards votes. Exposure to functioning PR would make the democratic deficit in our current system increasingly apparent.
  
  A lot of people don’t get it until they see it in action.
  My union recently had a vote about increasing health benefits. “No” won in one of the categories because there were 3 options for how much to increase it by. (Yes won by 76% while the no beat the top yes 24% to 23%)
  I pointed this out at the next meeting and we had a vote and struck the no vote. Later a bunch of people said thanks for pointing that out, and my reply was “no sweat, we have the same problem with our elections.”
  Then everyone applauded and Einstein gave me a piece of π. Just kidding, it was more like weird looks and a couple agreements, but I like to think I brought the issue to a few people’s attention.
  
  Because it's a step towards proportional representation. It would expose much more of the populace to how it's done. Hopefully getting more people used to the idea of it.
  
  There would be voting changes , I believe, something about EU membership requiring a certain type of voting system. Eg. Not FPP

Make Commonwealth Imperial Again!

Honestly do people think this we'll happen cause Brussels has already said no.
- Brussels can suck my balls we'll wait 6 months and Strasbourg is in power ez bro
- Back to supporting CANZUK then

Canada should totally call Trump's bluff. The GOP would lose their everloving shit at the prospect of another state the size and political leanings of California involved in US federal elections.
- It would be amazing if Canada made a bunch of demands that would be seen as unreasonable. Like, demand that every Canadian province and territory be split in two, and each be admitted as it's own state. That would add 26 new states! There's no way the US would go for that. I'm American, I hate this administration and I have been to Canada many times. Anything that Canada can do to mess with these morons in office would be welcome.

#28thnever51st

We have already rejected Morocco because of geographical reasons...
- But Cyprus is already in. And really, how sure are we that was the real main reason?
  Failing that, we'll just have to slum it with Norway and Switzerland.
- Still have Australia and Israel so
  
  Eurovision Song Contest, European Union, whats the difference?

I (from yrp) would absolutely love this <3

Pretty please yes! I would love to leave to US for the EU. But that hop across the water is very difficult for me to afford.

Get that CBDC in early so we are ready for their failed policies and quarterly bailout.

Don't all member states have to vote us in? Can't see that happening.
- Especially with Hungary's russian asset in command (yeah, we also have a Trump in Europe...)
  
  Orban has to vote for Canada. Why? His regime will be over in 14 days if he does not get the EU money. Orban's biggest rival is in first place according to the latest polls. If he wants to be re-elected, he cannot sabotage EU policy.
- Another rich country paying membership fees. Why not? (Ignoring general bureaucratic problems)
  
  As a Canadian, we promise to bring cake (and a shitload of natural resources) to the next meeting.
  
  Sure, most will view it like that. But Hungary won't. Poland might not.