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In the Abacus poll, 46 per cent of respondents said they would support Canada becoming a member state of the EU, and 44 per cent said the Canadian government should definitely or probably look into joining it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 days ago

Would it be awesome to be able to move and in the EU? Oh yeah, it would be great. However, the practicality of reality is that either Canada would have to completely overhaul laws and standards to be line with the EU would be absolute nightmare. Either Canada would have to adopt EU standards or gets a carve out making Canada not really part of the EU.

Alberta and Quebec already hate having Ottawa tell them what to do. Having Brussels have an influence on Canadian life? Even more of a reason to separate. Which means another constitutional crisis for Canada.

Canada should instead work to build stronger ties with the EU. Trade deals, research coordination, defence policy, immigration, etc.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I don't mind exchanging good ideas and having treaties with Europe, but joining the EU is definitely too far.

We don't need more super-national organization binding us.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

How else are we supposed to start the federation?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

I for once welcome our Canadian friends wholeheartedly!

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Just a step on the inevitable road to one world polity. We should really be working out a roadmap to a world where everyone is a citizen of a worldstate with freedom to move, travel and trade freely regardless of where they were born. Basic rights should be protected everywhere by global enforcement, Borders should be administrative niceties and people should be free to migrate to areas which reflect their social and religious preferences in a global freemarket of societies where the most beneficial policies result in people voting with their feet.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Itโ€™s been a movement here for over a decade now, surprised support is so low

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I hope they get to join. Meanwhile, here in the UK, we are further along the Trump path.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Its almost like watching one of those animations of how pangea split into the different continents watching countries seperate and re-form - but politically instead, bringing some countries together and others splitting away.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Donโ€™t tell the Republicans that. They think the planet is only 2025 years old

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Full circle

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago

Go for it Canada and the EU should send an invitation. Perhaps they should start with EEC membership and later receive full membership. MAGA would shit and f-them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Okay not a direct comparison but if I was playing a Paradox grand strategy game and the neighbor country started getting all fascist / authoritarian, I would want to group with like minded nations for protection. Hey we're already in a defense treaty with them why not make it a more inclusive type agreement? Personally I always felt culturally closer to the UK (yes I know not there anymore) than the US and thought many of our policies mirrored the US due to location and held us back.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

if we see the EU and US as two polar opposites I would see the UK as the intermediary for the EU, and Canada be the intermediary for the USA. Realistically though the UK is much more pro-USA than Canada currently. Starmer is so scared of getting the UK back into the trajectory of EU membership, that he actively hurts the UK relations to the EU AND the USA by not picking a side. We don't want the UK as a backdoor for the US to influence our politics again, we want a self-relying and souvereign United Kingdom back. Charles De Gaulle warned us in the 1960's that a english membership would for the most part represent the interests of the americans on european soil. And with Starmer, we are seeing exactly what De Gaulle warned Europe about. So yes, we would love to take the UK back, but not as a puppet state. We already have Hungary and Slovakia being puppeteered by the cunt called Putin that we need to worry about and act upon. Currently I see canadians more as europeans than I see british people

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