Interest in Canada joining the EU has increased amid US tensions, with 44% of Canadians supporting the idea. While the EU acknowledges shared values, Canada’s geographic distance and historical precedent present challenges for membership.
Interest in Canada joining the EU has increased amid US tensions, with 44% of Canadians supporting the idea. While the EU acknowledges shared values, Canada’s geographic distance and historical precedent present challenges for membership.
Well, Greenland was an EU member, but they left. Can’t remember when, but it was before brexit, so the UK wasn’t the only, or even the first, to leave. Possibly the last though, as the appetite for leaving seems to have dropped significantly.
As the current world situation looks very different, I think the EU is a much more attractive option - at least I hope so
I will never forget a conversation I had with some random Brit on Facebook before Brexit. He said to me, “You yanks don’t know what it’s like having your laws made for you by politicians you didn’t vote for 500 miles away.” In this hemisphere we call that Washington, D.C.
I mean, he had a point. What does a citizen of the American south know about secession, anyway?
Huh, my first thought was about the War of Independence.
When the UK voted to leave the EU, how many members were they allowed to send to the EU council and the Parliament of Europe?
When the thirteen colonies declared independence from the British Empire, how many members were they allowed to send to the British House of Commons and House of Lords?
The UK was not in the position where they were outright denied representation in a government that exerted power over them; that…what would the appropriate British word be? Burk? Pillock? …on Facebook I was talking to was bitching about not getting to vote against that guy from Greece or Germany in the same way I don’t get to vote against that guy from Kentucky or Texas.
My home state and about a dozen others DID secede from the union while having fair and legal representation in Washington once…look how that turned out.