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Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Re: Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Post by 3vidence »

Mountain_Skies wrote: post #249
aborsy wrote: post #124

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This is wishful thinking. The quality of public healthcare in Canada has been declining. In particular, the waiting times are long. Those who are well off go to US for important timely care. The gun violence in US is higher, but the chances of that impacting you are low, if you avoid problematic areas.

Canadian healthcare is quite interesting. It's the best in the world if there's someone from the States in the room but as soon as it's just Canadians in the discussion, it instantly becomes the world's worst.

I think that isn't that hard to understand.

The USA has pretty much the worst healthcare in the world. Much ahead of it but in 2nd last is Canada.

Re: Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Post by wasabi991011 »

fijiaarone wrote: post #470
throwawaysleep wrote: post #139

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Quebec would be a economic powerhouse if it weren’t French. One of the many reasons why.

Fewer than 25% of people in Quebec speak French fluently. Less than 1/10 use French as their primary language.

This does not sound remotely close to my experience. According to StatCan, about 6 million out of 8 million have French as a maternal language, and the same is true for the language spoken at home. Even more have French as the "language the most spoken at home".

Source here: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/dp-pd/pr...

Re: Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Post by cman1444 »

bawolff wrote: post #456
adriand wrote: post #416

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That’s not the full context of what is in the article. The full sentence is: > Europeans could learn from Canada how to allow immigration in a fashion that the population embraces rather than tolerates, though a housing crunch has frayed that consensus of late. Far from sounding ignorant, the author sounds well-informed.

Umm no? There is (sadly) a significant anti-immigration backlash right now in canada. Its a core election issue and one of the main reasons trudeau is likely going to lose the next election.

Did you mean to respond to the parent comment?

The comment you're responding to gives credit to the author for acknowledging recent anti-immigration sentiment in Canada.

Re: Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Post by philwelch »

dzogchen wrote: post #158

With Trump already threatening Canada without this ridiculous plan, no thanks. > The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes European colonialism in the Western Hemisphere. It holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. The doctrine was central to American grand strategy in the 20th centu…

Exactly what I was going to say. It was only in the 1980’s that Canada fully freed itself of British domination; there’s no justification for Europe to regain any political control over any independent country in the Western Hemisphere.

Re: Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Post by 3vidence »

TMWNN wrote: post #511
amatecha wrote: post #296

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Every major US tech company has Canada-based hubs for sure. So much cheaper.

My understanding is that Canadian FAANG offices are staffed mostly with those who cannot (and often will never get) a US visa, plus the odd local who doesn't want to move to the US for personal or family reasons.

This is accurate.

Source: Canadian working in FAANG in Canada

Re: Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Post by [deleted] »

bombcar wrote: post #476
bufferoverflow wrote: post #409

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How do you mix a culture that throws gays people off roofs with a culture that celebrates gay people? To me it's pretty obvious not all cultures are good to mix with.

Obviously by creating a culture that celebrates gay people before throwing them off roofs. Which isn’t terribly far fetched - apparently some gladiators were basically sports stars, with death.

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Re: Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Post by maeil »

jmb99 wrote: post #401
sanex wrote: post #370

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Even my immigrant friends in Canada think there are too many immigrants.

Quote from a Chinese friend of mine form over the holidays (currently in Canada on a work visa, applying for a PR shortly, started as an exchange student in highschool): “I really like coming back to [jmb99’s hometown], it’s all white people. Nice change from Toronto.” Definitely a common sentiment.

It's the same as tourists complaining about tourists, hilarious irony. Does your Chinese friend at least realize that he's the one causing it? Even on HN I see the sentiment very often, people going on 5 holidays per year and complaining that certain places have become touristy. You literally wouldn't even know the place had become touristy if you wouldn't have gone there as a tourist!

Re: Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Post by twobitshifter »

gmueckl wrote: post #54
haunter wrote: post #19

Not outlandish, Morocco applied in 1987 but it was rejected https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco%E2%80%93European_Union...

The rejection was expected. The EU and its associated organizations are only open to countries on the European continent by their current rules. Canada would have to broker a hell of a deal to get even partially in. EFTA membership might be a possible goal.

Canada is still under the British Monarch, Charles as King of Canada. Not saying that would work but it might be one avenue. It’s also good reason that Canada joining the US would be very hard as things stand.

Re: Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Post by TMWNN »

3vidence wrote: post #545
TMWNN wrote: post #511

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My understanding is that Canadian FAANG offices are staffed mostly with those who cannot (and often will never get) a US visa, plus the odd local who doesn't want to move to the US for personal or family reasons.

This is accurate. Source: Canadian working in FAANG in Canada

Thanks for the corroboration. While replying to you, let me clarify my previous comment:

>those non-Canadians who cannot (and often will never get) a US visa

Re: Why Canada Should Join the EU

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Post by defrost »

dlivingston wrote: post #539
defrost wrote: post #274

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All the research on "diversity" shows that it is clearly associated with particular media outlets as a primary talking point and wedge issue. Outside readers rarely hear about diversity from other sources - the noise ratio from one side of the US aisle on the issue is staggering.

If ground.news and Manufacturing Consent have taught me anything, it's that "legacy" / traditional media regularly ignore valid stories.

Are you saying that Haitian immigrants to the US were actually eating cats in Ohio?
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