There is precedent (Cyprus, as well as Turkey previously wanting to join).

We can pass a law saying Canada is part of Europe and Google, Apple, and Microsoft will change their maps.

What do you mean? We have a land border with Denmark.

If that’s not good enough, maybe Sweden would be willing to part with one of their 267,570 islands. Or at least half of one… if we took the inside half, then Sweden wouldn’t have to worry about losing any of the EEZ.

Doesn’t matter. The requirement is to be “a European country”, not “a country in Europe”. What “European” really means has been left deliberately ambiguous.

Neither is Greenland.

Eh, continents are entirely a socially-constructed category. I mean, how can Mexican America and South America be one continent when there’s no land route between them, yet Europe and Asia can be two continents? The Americas are on different techtonic plates, which similarly is enough to earn India the designation of subcontinent. And where’s the cut-off between big island and continent? Bigger than Greenland, and smaller than Australia is all we can say.

Anyway, what I’m saying is that with just a quick redefinition of the continents, which already don’t make sense, Canada can be in Europe.

People float the idea of Australia joining the EU every so often too, but much the same we’d be a second class country basically handing money over to Germany and France for the sake of it.