The whole point of the EU was removing stupid barriers and currency from countries an hour apart or less. Canada doesn’t need to be governed by some clowns in Brussels who have to consider Europe first.
Trade deals ok, but fuck off with the EU idea and it isn’t even possible.
You have a lot of misinformed opinions about the EU.
May need to lay off the Brexit propaganda and actually look into it yourself sometime.
For one, every member has representation in Brussel. So if Canada were to join, they would also have to send “a clown to Brussel” that gets to decide how the rest of the EU has to function.
A representative that gets chosen by the people you voted for. By the by.
Which is a normal way of working in every single Union.
While I’m less hostile to the idea (actually, I kind of like it), ultimately it doesn’t make sense. Our geographic difference makes our situation very different from EU member states. Our resources and outputs are very different, our location and geography makes transport needs very different. Deals that make sense for us among the Americas would make no sense for the EU. And the EU isn’t just trade, free flow of citizens makes no sense in this context, either.
Brexit was dumb for them, but it doesn’t mean joining would be smart for us. We should be just be allies with the EU and have lots of friendly policies, yes.
To put it another way, just because you break up with a long time partner who became abusive, it doesn’t mean you should start dating the (long distance) friend who supported you through it. Sometimes you should just be friends, for the better.
The whole point of the EU was removing stupid barriers and currency from countries an hour apart or less. Canada doesn’t need to be governed by some clowns in Brussels who have to consider Europe first.
Trade deals ok, but fuck off with the EU idea and it isn’t even possible.
You have a lot of misinformed opinions about the EU.
May need to lay off the Brexit propaganda and actually look into it yourself sometime.
For one, every member has representation in Brussel. So if Canada were to join, they would also have to send “a clown to Brussel” that gets to decide how the rest of the EU has to function.
A representative that gets chosen by the people you voted for. By the by.
Which is a normal way of working in every single Union.
While I’m less hostile to the idea (actually, I kind of like it), ultimately it doesn’t make sense. Our geographic difference makes our situation very different from EU member states. Our resources and outputs are very different, our location and geography makes transport needs very different. Deals that make sense for us among the Americas would make no sense for the EU. And the EU isn’t just trade, free flow of citizens makes no sense in this context, either.
Brexit was dumb for them, but it doesn’t mean joining would be smart for us. We should be just be allies with the EU and have lots of friendly policies, yes.
To put it another way, just because you break up with a long time partner who became abusive, it doesn’t mean you should start dating the (long distance) friend who supported you through it. Sometimes you should just be friends, for the better.