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[โ€“] UninvestedCuriosity@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

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

[โ€“] 01011@monero.town 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

So they'll take Canada but not Turkiye?

[โ€“] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 points 6 days ago

There are checkpointsย for accession and Tรผrkije has halted all its progress.

On order for them to join the Kurdish question has to be addressed. That's not happening any time soon.

[โ€“] toad@lemmy.wtf -3 points 6 days ago

canada is white

[โ€“] toad@lemmy.wtf -2 points 6 days ago

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

[โ€“] VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 60 points 1 week ago (9 children)

The br*tish would be so mad hahaha

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[โ€“] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

[โ€“] Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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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[โ€“] webkitten@piefed.social 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yes, but also Canada in Eurovision.

[โ€“] officermike@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (5 children)

What chance do the Europeans have against Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Shaniah Twain, and Ted Cruz?

[โ€“] webkitten@piefed.social 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are you forgetting Canada's greatest export, Barenaked Ladies?

Why does everyone leap to defend that band so aggressively?

[โ€“] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago

Celine Dion won it for Switzerland, if memory serves correctly

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[โ€“] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ok, but besides the bylaws, treaties, & other whathaveyous, afaik Canada has systems (trades, standards) way close to USA than to continental European countries. From the integration pov this would be a giant task. And if Canada would gain significant power (which it would) a lot more of "USA" things & ways of life would leak to "euEU".

It's a very complex hypothetical question that can hardly be judged via sentiment tracking at "this stage" (which isn't even a stage).

Nevertheless positive responses are very nice, yay friends!

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[โ€“] IanTwenty@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Canenter, Canentrance, Can'entree?

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[โ€“] SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How hard is it to move a country to get it into the EU?

Assuming you don't have a couple hundred million years.

[โ€“] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well, we're already only 20km away from France, south of Newfoundland. And share a little land border with Greenland.

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[โ€“] digital_digger@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It makes sense because right now UE is running so smooothly. Everyone interests are aligned.

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[โ€“] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (15 children)
[โ€“] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[โ€“] vga@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some kind of North Atlantic Trade Organization?

Or how about my favourite game title from the 90s that I never played: Federation of Free Traders

[โ€“] HubertManne@piefed.social 7 points 1 week ago (5 children)

It kinda makes sense when you thinkabout greenland.

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