Canada is looking for a bigger security role in Asia and has made forging deeper ties with Japan and South Korea a priority. As its defence commitments expand at home and overseas the country is expanding military spending.
"Next year, my defence budget will rise by 27% over this year, and, frankly, in the next three or four years, our defence spending will triple," Blair said.
My personal dream is that we'd join the EU since a lot of our agriculture shit would be in high demand and they're more politically stable than being attached to the US at the hip but, honestly, any additional economic diversity is welcome. America might elect Trump and it that fucker puts up a 20% tariff a large portion of our economy would be fucked overnight.
As Canada is on a continent even further from the continent of Europe than Morocco was, it's sadly very easy to see a rejection on those grounds alone.
I can not find a reference now but I thought back in the day (almost a decade ago now) one of the goals of the Trans-Pacific Partnership would have been to lead to a union or confederation between it's members, akin to how the European Steel and Coal Community eventually became the European Union.