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[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 6 hours ago

Not sure if their new immigration policy is gonna fly, were the government to agree to that

[-] toad@lemmy.wtf 1 points 6 hours ago

I mean our leaders have a lot in common (they're both genocidal cronies)

[-] UninvestedCuriosity@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Higher sales tax but sane policy like GDPR and workers rights by comparison in competition are a strong pull for me in this. I don't hate the idea so long as we don't receive just all the hardships on the bottom while the wealth class get all the benefits. Had Canada actually kept their budget in order and not just pissed it away into debt when they had the chance? I might be more for sovereignty but I'd definitely take advantage of all the additional opportunity to contribute to brain drain if it made sense. I actually think they would find difficulty in keeping Canadians staying in Canada if this was an option.

Even within Canada I feel trapped by low rent in a high cost of living area and I don't want to gamble on leaving the only leg up I have in the world. Leaving this situation could open me up to so many jobs but the value at the end of the day doesn't make sense because I'd be starting over in rent costs at the current market rate. So I can't make it make sense. This hurts my earning potential lifelong but what good is earning potential if it all ends up in someone else's pocket while I take higher risk positions.

[-] biofaust@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Lately I take the stance of no more member countries until veto is removed.

[-] Goldholz 46 points 1 day ago

Honestly i find it funny. Lets add australia and New Zeeland too! Britain leaves the union "to have trade deals with australia" then australia joins the EU. Would be the funniest shit ever

[-] No1@aussie.zone 5 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Oi!

We Aussies have been in Eurovision for over a decade.

We better be let in the EU before those other cunts!

Cheers

[-] c10l@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Oh please join Schengen as well!

[-] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 hours ago

I'd love to have you cunts in the EU!

The Victoria Bitter is cooling and the barbies are being lit for the welcome party.

[-] Pipster 22 points 1 day ago

I think you give too much credit to the morons who voted for economic suicide. They didn't vote to have deals with Australia, they all thought we were so big and important that the EU would bend over backwards to give us a favourable trade deal even though every single expert on the subject disagreed. The Australia and Canada deals came up only after we shot ourselves in the head.

[-] Goldholz 11 points 1 day ago

I didnt give any credit to the morons voting for economic suicide. But i pitty them for all they fell for.

Charles de gaule said it best "britain will see the european community only as replacrment to its dying empire and wont ever dedicate itself to it"

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The br*tish would be so mad hahaha

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[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

Yes, what we need is more bureaucracy and endless layers of useless people.

I'm in! Tax me baby!

[-] Goldholz 9 points 1 day ago
[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 11 points 1 day ago

The year is 2098, Earth has finally found peace and united under one flag, except for England, who is sticking to its Brexit plans.

[-] Goldholz 4 points 18 hours ago

But only england. Scotland, wales, cornwall, north ireland, island of man, they are all not part anymore

[-] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 1 points 6 hours ago

Wooooooo ๐Ÿด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ

[-] orioler25@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

A more formal unification of white settler-colonial states would be a "united Earth," eh? I wonder if anyone in the past said such a thing and what they did about it. ๐Ÿง

[-] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago

Malta, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Luxembourg, Croatia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Greece

[-] orioler25@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm not sure if this is meant to evoke a narrative that only exists from distortion or just from a small group.

[-] wieson@feddit.org 1 points 2 minutes ago

These countries are essential to the European project. The EU compromises of countries who were colonisers, non-colonisers and colonised.
The EU's goal is to unite and facilitate peace. Sure, we have unhealthy power gradients that need to be worked on, but the EU is not a coloniser/settler state.

It's not a distortion, it's filling in the picture.

[-] Goldholz 3 points 18 hours ago
[-] orioler25@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Oh, so you get what I'm making fun of you for, the fascism was intentional?

[-] ragas@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Earth Union

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[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

This is stupid.

No, Canada will not become Europe. Yes, there will be more trade deals.

[-] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

The being in the EU and being in Europe are not the same.

[-] toad@lemmy.wtf 1 points 6 hours ago

then stop calling it the EU and start calling it the "white people club"

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[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Canada is not geographically eligible to join the EU by definition. The founding treaties would need to be rewritten and re-signed by all parties, which does not seem feasible short-term. The way more likely route is more trade agreements and such, which would indeed be good for everyone

[-] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Fortunately, in the post-truth world we no longer have to be limited by the meanings of words or historical precedent. We can simply redefine geography whenever it suits us, others are already doing so with impunity. If the Gulf of Mexico can become the Gulf of America and South America can become the United Colonies of America, then why can't Canada become Europe? Nobody gives a fuck anymore. This isn't about getting marked correctly on an assignment, this is about survival in the face of the collapse of world order and building a fortress around social democracy before it's divided and conquered.

[-] Amberskin@europe.pub 1 points 4 hours ago

Doesnโ€™t Canada have a land border with Denmark in one Arctic island or something similar?

[-] toad@lemmy.wtf 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

i mean europe is a made up continent anyway. If the ural mountains are continental boundaries then tell me why the rockies or the hymalayas aren't?

Europe is just code for "white asia"

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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Also, being in the EU means meeting a lot of product, drug, food, etc. safety standards.

Just to pick one, to meet electricity standards, Canadian outlets would have to accept Type C Europlug devices and supply them with 230V at 50 Hz. That would mean redoing the entire Canadian electrical grid in a way that would make it incompatible with the American one. I don't think that's realistic.

More realistic is some variation of the deal that the EU has with Switzerland. Not in the EU but lots of bilateral deals that mostly make the border disappear for travellers.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 9 points 1 day ago

Ireland is in the EU (and the UK was too) and their sockets don't accept Type C either.

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[-] webkitten@piefed.social 43 points 1 day ago

Yes, but also Canada in Eurovision.

[-] Akasazh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Only if they kick Israel out first

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[-] yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

I'm up for it just to trigger and over power Trump's permanent term

[-] BeardededSquidward 3 points 22 hours ago

Truthfully, it's likely a case of either they partner with the EU or realize Trump's 51st state remark isn't bravodo.

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