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That's like saying if Canada doesn't try to join the EU it doesn't understand what trade looks like. Yeah, actually, you can do trade and do it successfully wi
by zigzigzag 10y ago
That's like saying if Canada doesn't try to join the EU it doesn't understand what trade looks like.
Yeah, actually, you can do trade and do it successfully without tying all treaties together into a political state-building project. Everywhere else in the world manages this pretty successfully.
- moomin 10y agoNo, because CETA shows an awareness of these issues: 1) It's got a lot of stuff about non-tariff barriers in it. 2) Doesn't really apply, because Canada is heavily pro-immigration anyway. 3) Remains true 4) Remains true and 5) Is also a problem for CETA. Bear in mind also that CETA is a _much_ more limited trade deal than we have with the EU. So, you're right in that there is a theoretical position that the UK could take which was pro-trade and anti-EU, but it would be a light-year away from the briefings of the Three Brexiteers right now.
- zigzigzag 10y agoHardly: CETA doesn't affect immigration and is pretty similar to the sort of trade deal the UK might want. The "single market" isn't as impressive as people like to make out. It's primarily oriented towards trade in goods i.e. what Germany wants and progress on trade in services i.e. what the UK wants has been very slow and sometimes goes backwards. The EU has made selling software or any digital items over the internet to EU member countries vastly harder than it used to be: it's actually easier to sell into the EU over the internet from outside it, which is madness.