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So you’re saying 56% of Canadians would vote No?
> I'm willing to bet that a larger number would support immigration from EU nations. Especially if it was a reciprocal right.
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Could you elaborate regarding how exactly were eastern bloc countries "tricked" into joining by the UK? And what prevents them from leaving now that the tricksters from UK have long since left themselves?
I refer you to the video as to the why and how, keeping in mind that's before the Berlin Wall came down. The Brits have a habit of only telling you the precise truth when they think you think they're joking.
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One thing that is common about middle democracies is that prioritize a bureaucratic elite structure over an entrepreneurship culture, while both the US and China embrace entreprenuership wholeheartedly. If they changed that they'd perhaps become world powers themselves.
You're getting downvoted now, but it's the Europeans who are running out of money for healthcare and public services (and voting for neo-fascist parties promising fixes that will never come). European sentiment is totally out of touch with European reality. They'll post gleefully online about how much better their life is and then go back to their sardine flat where they can't afford to pay for heating, and it never…
This is blatantly false. Americans spend 18% of GDP on healthcare, while most European countries are around 10%.
> Canada's Bill C-22 Would Force Encryption Backdoors > Signal, Windscribe, and NordVPN say they'll pull out of Canada before building surveillance infrastructure. The biggest threat to encrypted communications in a Western democracy since Australia's 2018 law. https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/canada-bill-c22-lawful-... + > European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy, Framing M…
It seems every country in the world has such regimes, either publicly or in the background. You can bet no Chinese or Russian system comes without backdoors, plenty of US systems have been revealed to have backdoors, etc. I disagree with this, but it's still somehow not an aspect uniquely horrible about EU or Canadian policy making, so not sure why this would be relevant here.
Good, if the middle power democracies don't align/work together they are going to get torn apart in the struggle between the US and China.
70% of Canadian exports are to the US. 6% to the EU. Why would e.g. Poland want to enter a trade war with the US on Canada's behalf?
Being in a situation where 70% of your exports go to one country is arguably pretty unhealthy; that is something that Canada would do well to work towards reducing, even _if_ the US administration wasn't openly hostile.
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The elected representatives can decide? I mean their Parliament.
It sounds constitutional, and if you want to make a Canadian exasperated ask about the history of the Canadian constitution. Hint: it's still not been signed by all the relevant parties.
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The world was already moving on from US hegemony. China is already a super power, other economies are growing, and the west in general (i.e. all the countries mentioned here) are a shrinking proportion of the world economy (and population, or military strength).
Not if we kick off WW3 as a last ditch attempt to hold on to the old order ;)
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There is no struggle, China has already won.
This is being heavily downvoted, but it's dangerously close to true. In ten years the downvoters will not only agree with this, but have moved on to "and that's a good thing".
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Exactly. I prefer seeing pumpjacks and hydrofracking equipment, just like all red blooded capitalists.
I've never seen a pumpjack nor any hydrofracking equipment. I have seen a few capitalists but I can't be positive they were red-blooded ones (whatever that means).
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Not really with the US anymore. Anyway, I think you missed this reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement
There are over 30 US military bases in EU member states, so I would classify that as alignment with the US.
As of today, with current affairs and the unpredictable element in chief, you may never know how long.