'Anybody in the EU would have the equivalent of a right to work in Canada,' says academic
According to recent polling, a clear majority of Canadian citizens thinks joining the European Union (EU) is either good or at least worth exploring.
More than half (57%) are willing to see it explored while 25% say it's a good idea and 17% a bad one, finds the survey of 4,000 people by spark*insights.
Should such a transition occur, it would take years of legal, political and administrative maneuvering to get there.
But as Amy Verdun, professor of comparative politics at the University of Victoria, explains, the survey results contain an important message for employers that goes beyond constitutional law: employees value stability, credible rules and leaders they can trust.
“Canada, the European Union and the old-fashioned United States, the one before Trump, were all into having a good, rules-based system where courts work and where you can trust politicians,” she says.
Employment-law wise, if Canada did transition to EU membership from its strong dependence on the U.S., the changes wouldn’t be as jarring as might be expected, Verdun says, since Canada’s values around multilateralism and social responsibility align more with Europe’s than with America’s.
She also points out that one of the EU’s core attractions is its single-market model, where people can move and work freely.
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