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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What a shitty pic for 80% of them. Is that a full blown eye roll?

(I am for this group getting together like this, but what a badly timed photo for a bunch of people who professionally try to look good in photos)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I assume there are multiple cameras from multiple press agencies, so they're looking all over.

The one you're talking about probably hadn't blinked in a minute.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

You beat me to it!

I was going to post this with the caption "Democracy's last stand" or something similar.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Unpopular take maybe…

Canada does not need to join the EU to increase trade and partnerships. More trade agreements and joint projects. The EU is a complicated political structure and joining it is unnecessarily complicateted.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I don't think anyone in this picture seriously expects Canada to officially join the EU. The US would never allow such an interference with its manifest destiny. But we can make a close partnership even closer.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Canada: You know, I'm somewhat of a European myself.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (17 children)

Would Canada be interested in joining the EU? Might make sense considering what a bad neighbor the US has become.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I would love to join the EU, my grandpa immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands after WW2 but Netherlands doesn't offer citizenship to grandchildren ):

Would be nice to have the freedom of travel to the EU and vice versa if anyone wants to come over and visit Canada.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It would be terrible for our country, just look at the impact the mere thought of tarrifs has had on our economy. A full renegotiation of the US Canada trade border would be chaos.

Europeans are cool and I wish we had your public transit, but EU membership of a NA country will never happen.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

As a Canadian... we didn't know this was an option. But hell yeah, we'd join the EU.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

This Canadian would be happy to join.

I think the EU is waiting to see if we get PP or not since we're on the brink of stupidity like the US was. If we elect a PM interested in being a civilized member of the global stage, I think we'll be invited in.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (11 children)

And Canada does have a land border with an EU country - Denmark. Canada and Denmark had a long standing border dispute over Hans island featuring multiple armed raids. It was resolved in a mature and sensible fashion to just divide the island. Good for all involved.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Canada also has land in France. The Vimy Ridge memorial is officially Canadian territory, granted by France.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

France also has St. Pierre and Miquelon that shares a border with Newfoundland.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

I would be happy if we at least could ratify CETA finally. Sheesh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'm doubtful full membership will ever happen, and even an EEA Norway-style agreement where we adopt 75% of the EU's laws without representation but keep our fishing and agricultural policies (pre-requisites for the Atlantic and Prairie Provinces to agree), would take decades to be negotiated, signed and ratified with all the dysfunctional, proportional representational governments in Europe right now.

There's been discussions about "associate membership" in the EU to bypass the European-ness requirement, but I don't think that's gotten any traction.

I would be grateful for any kind of free movement agreement that gains traction right now, even with CARICOM or MERCOSUR.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 month ago

Of course you're getting downvoted, this is the rational answer.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nonsense those countries with proportional representation are more stable and perform better on a variety of issues.

They score higher on the democracy index than we do.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Canadian here, everybody I know would love this

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Another Canadian here... yes please.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I’m sorry but I I have to agree

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (4 children)

with so many foreign troops fighting for russia in ukraine, there is zero justification for european troops not to be fighting with the ukranians as well. zero. every day that uk & france aren't mobilzing and deploying troops to ukraine is just more european stalling until complete abandonment

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I think for the longest time the worry was that it would potentially be a NATO conflict. With Trump throwing everything out and them threatening to pull the US out of NATO I do sort of hope that gives Europe a reason to fight.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

This is not accurate, there a lot of different peoples fighting in the war but conflict within Ukraine is fought under Ukrainian and Russian flags only. North Koreans are deployed in Kursk region of the Russian Federation.

Edit: Korean under NK flag, they have military engineers deployed in donas region in support role but i think they are actually under RF flag

But technically Russia already popped the cherry on this, I will agree... if NK can deploy into Russia for combat operations why would not an EU state do the same?

nUclEaR wAr🤡

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if they all coordinate their suit and ties for unity.

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