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Joachim Streit has never stepped foot in Canada. But that hasn’t stopped the German politician from launching a tenacious, one-man campaign that he readily describes as “aspirational”: to have the North American country join the EU.
“We have to strengthen the European Union,” said Streit, who last year was elected as a member of the European parliament. “And I think Canada – as its prime minister says – is the most European country outside of Europe.”
While he admitted that the possibility of Canada as a full member of the EU “may be aspirational for now”, he wondered if it was an idea whose time had come.
“Canada would be a strong member,” he said. “If Canada would be a member of the EU, it would rank 4th in terms of GDP. It’s part of Nato. And 58% of (working-age) Canadians have college degrees.”
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There first has to be a train line to Canada. This is an unavoidable prerequisite. Then we’ll see.
A train line joining mainland EU with the UK, Iceland, Greenland and Canada?
Greenland is either connected by train because it’s part of Denmark, or doesn’t need to be because it’s a quasi independent territory.
As for Iceland, nobody knows.
If it can bring more holidays and better working conditions, then I’m all in.
4 weeks minimum paid vacations would be hella nice.
I would be happy to be part of the EU. Also the fact that it would upset trump is a bonus.
We don’t need to join the EU in order to build closer ties with them and to adopt some of their more progressive regulatory frameworks.
I want to join BRICS
Which country would you like to migrate to?
The Easter coast of Canada is closer to Britain than Britain is to the furthest east point of the EU.
Closer integration and cooperation, yes absolutely. Membership, no.
We don’t need to be anyone’s 51st state and we don’t need to be anyone’s 28th member state.
No thanks, the Euro area has enough problems itself. Hence their desire to rush in a CBDC, and to limit free speech.
This report outlines the economic fantasy land of Europe the best.
https://icecap.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022.02-IceCap-Global-Outlook.pdf
“To demonstrate our skepticism towards the Europeans’ ability to achieve escape
velocity and forever leave behind their zombie banking system, unmarketable
debt and complete dependence on suppressing price discovery - consider the
following policy reactions orchestrated by the European Central Bank (ECB) since
the 2008-09 crisis:
• European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF)
• European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism (EFSM)
• European Stability Mechanism (ESM)
• Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT)
• Long Term Refinancing Operation (LTRO)
• Long Term Refinancing Operation II (LTRO)
• Long Term Refinancing Operation III (LTRO)
• Tripartite Committee consisting of ECB, IMF, EC agreement (TROIKA)
• Forced austerity and bailouts of Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain
• Activation of FED USD Swap Lines
• Asset Purchase Program (APP)
• Corporate sector purchase programme (CSPP)
• Public sector purchase programme (PSPP)
• Asset-backed securities purchase programme (ABSPP)
• Covered Bond Purchase Programme (CBPP)
• Covered Bond Purchase Programme II (CBPP)
• Covered Bond Purchase Programme III (CBPP)
• Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP)
• Quantitative Easing (QE)
• Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP)
• Negative Interest Rate Policy (NIRP)
Recal”Yea I would not want to give up monetary sovereignty to them either, it will not work long term, and the needed bailouts are just a symptom of the larger issues
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Are they driving the vehicles across the ocean to ram you?
Cars don’t kill people, people kill people. Go look up vehicle ramming attacks by migrants in Europe the past decade.
Ignoring whether this is a thing or not, those migrants would still be in Europe… Not Canada. The European Union and the Schengen zone are not the same thing.
We’ve already had people in cars in Canada ramming Muslims, but joining Europe isn’t going to cause a guy in Europe to drive across and ram a Canadian family. They would have to travel here first, and if they are the type of person to plan a flight to rent a car to ram people, they are going to do that anyway
