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Well you simply can't since Canada doesn't seem "quite" located in Europe. Speaking of which this reminds me how the EU is an outdated idea, just like the Soviet Union. Those unions emerged under the idea that globalization doesn't exist...e.q: you can't order from the internet, can't travel fast enough and currency is fragmented between neighbooring countries. EU = Views of the 1980s.
I know Canada is not part of Europe but it certainly is the most European thinking country outside of Europe. We are English and French by language and culture but very much also have Nordic sensibilities, values, and outlooks. Aus/NZ/USA are very much socially and culturally more aligned with the UK than Canada which has far greater European views.
Let's be serious, stating Turkey is part of Europe is a real stretch because Europe is not a continent but rather a collection of relatively same racial backgrounds with similar cultures and norms. Turkey is the anti-thesis of European by this definition while Canada very much so. I would love Canada to join and I bet most Western & Northern Europeans would far rather have economic ties and especially free movement of labour with Canada than Turkey.
I know Canada is not part of Europe but it certainly is the most European thinking country outside of Europe. We are English and French by language and culture but very much also have Nordic sensibilities, values, and outlooks. Aus/NZ/USA are very much socially and culturally more aligned with the UK than Canada which has far greater European views.
Let's be serious, stating Turkey is part of Europe is a real stretch because Europe is not a continent but rather a collection of relatively same racial backgrounds with similar cultures and norms. Turkey is the anti-thesis of European by this definition while Canada very much so. I would love Canada to join and I bet most Western & Northern Europeans would far rather have economic ties and especially free movement of labour with Canada than Turkey.
Not really true, except for Quebec and the eastern part of Canada. Any place that would vote for extremely conservative parties such as the so-called 'Liberals' in B.C, which allowed foreign money to push out its native born citizens and much industry that employed them, and a college drop out in Ontario who just axed the Basic Income experiment and looks set to slash social assistance to the indigent can hardly be said to have 'european values'.
Canada is a fairly conservative place, actually. All Anglophone countries are, I think. The people are suspicious of bureaucracy/government, prefer low taxes over government services, and often express a negative opinion about Unions. No way, no how would a substantial subset of canadians willingly pay the tax levels that europeans face in order to enjoy a genuinely functioning social democracy. The Quebecois have no qualms about paying higher taxes (their provincial taxes are the highest in the country), a fact that is regularly remarked upon, and quite negativly light, in most of English Canada. Canada is USA-lite. I wish it weren't, but it is.
I know Canada is not part of Europe but it certainly is the most European thinking country outside of Europe. We are English and French by language and culture but very much also have Nordic sensibilities, values, and outlooks. Aus/NZ/USA are very much socially and culturally more aligned with the UK than Canada which has far greater European views.
Let's be serious, stating Turkey is part of Europe is a real stretch because Europe is not a continent but rather a collection of relatively same racial backgrounds with similar cultures and norms. Turkey is the anti-thesis of European by this definition while Canada very much so. I would love Canada to join and I bet most Western & Northern Europeans would far rather have economic ties and especially free movement of labour with Canada than Turkey.
Europe is not a continent with the same racial backgrounds. It is a very diverse continent and the cultural differences are big especially compared to Russia is very different culturally to the Netherlands, or Sweden to Greece or Albania to Serbia.
Canada has more in common with the USA than of Europe.
I've heard Canada called a lot of things but conservative has never been one of them.
Anyway I still say that the VAST majority of {especially Western} Europeans would far rather have the free movement of labour with Canada than Turkey any day of the week. I think many Western Europeans {except the British} view Canada as the only true relative they have outside Europe. I think many would also find it refreshing to get a new member that wouldn't be drain on European taxpayers like all of the countries on the poll would be save Sweden and Denmark.
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but people just put label 'conservative' only on eastern europe.
