Scape Scape:
What if we decided to sign on with the EU?
I'd advise you not to. The Anglo-Saxon economies are performing much better than the Continental European countries. The UK is the fastest-growing large economy in Europe, with growth of about 3.2%, compared to the sluggish growth of the major Continental powers. Germany's economic growth this year is expected to be around 0.9%! And it's economy, along with Italy's, SHRANK in size last year.
Anglo-Saxon countries also have much lower unemployment levels. Britain's unemployment rate is only about 3%, which is the third LOWEST unemployment rate in the Western World after Ireland and Luxembourg. By contrast, Germany has an unemployment of 11% and France has 10%.
The reason why the Continental EU countries are performing badly compared to booming Britain is because they have the Euro, and those countries do NOT control their own currencies and even their own economies (I suppose you can't even call them countries anymore) and are therefore not able to set interest rates to their own advantage. Instead, the European Central Bank controls the interest rates of all the countries that have adopted the Euro, but because all the different countries need to have different interest rates then some countries must suffer and have interest rates that are bad for them. There will be situations when Ireland needs higher interest rates but Germany needs lower interest rates, so the ECB decides to lower the interest rates, and Ireland suffers.
Britain still has the pound, and is therefore able to control interest rates always to her own advantage, and that is why our economy is booming, with high growth and low unemployment.
So, if you want Canada to experience high unemployment, low economic growth, loss of sovereignty, then join the EU and the Euro.
You may also eventually lose the superior Anglo-Saxon code of justice, and adopt the Continental, Napoleonic system, where (unlike in the UK, US and Canada) you are guilty until you are proven innocent, have no trial by jury, lose the right where you can NOT be tried for the same crime twice etc etc. All of those are practised in the Continental EU countries.