FWIW, most people in blue states would probably have your backs too. The province most at risk would probably be Alberta, which… is Alberta
Hell, a lot of Americans still have your banks.
I hope that is a typo.
ROFL, yes it is. But given the current state of the government here nabbing federal government budgets, it’s a hilariously ill-timed one!
Uh, a lot of Americans want to join up
If any country started invading the US, they would face fierce resistance from every household they attempt to pass.
Except Canada. Canada’s numbers would swell as they moved through the US. They’d get handed free guns.
Northern Brit here: we have to have each other’s backs. The only way we’re getting off Mr Bones’ Wild Ride is together ❤️ we can do this.
Resist. Rebel. Revolt. ✊
I want to get off Mr Bones’ Wild Ride, I’m tired
They don’t even have their own backs. Look at their military spending. It’s pretty low.
They have nukes as defence.
Nukes don’t replace boots on the ground.
Nobody cared about boots on the ground when MAD Theory kept the Cold War cold.
They where supposed to have Ukraines back but we’ve seen how spinless the Europeans are when it comes to standing up to empires.
Did the ccp approve this comment
Hey EU, we’ll upvote your countries if you upvote Canada. Interested in equal trade?
You wanna meet up in the laneway and rip a couple clappers at the garage door while smokin’ darts, well count me in.
Perhaps. Feel like Canada is the other extreme tbh.
The other extreme to what?
Explain
Euthanising people instead of treating them, forcing schools to observe gay pride
Sure, it’s nowhere near as bad as America, probably very good compared to American standards (you only really have USA and Mexico up there) but not too great either.
But if USA would invade Canada, I would support us defending Canada. We both swear fielty to His Majesty King Charles III, and we’re part of NATO, which I support. An attack on one is an attack on all. Even if the attacker is a rogue American state.
uncovered a total of four cases where veterans were allegedly offered MAID — all apparently by the same caseworker.
You’re judging an entire country for the actions of one person, when the people in that country had the same reaction as you, and investigated it and dealt with it?
The other story you’re citing is from a conservative US owned newspaper. And what’s wrong with celebrating pride? Also education is under the jurisdiction of the Provincial governments which are democratically elected. So you can see the bias there where the actions of democratically elected government are characterized as being somehow nefarious… for doing their jobs. Also note the part where “sources” say Muslims are taking their children out of school. Just Americans trying stir up shit and create division in Canada for profit. That’s Postmedia for you.
I don’t disagree with you that euthanized people instead of treating them is fucked, but that’s definitely a side effect of capitalism, because it’s cheaper to just euthanize than have the system support them.
About the “forcing schools to observe gay pride”: it appears you posted an article from national post, which has a known centre-right bias, so i read the article to see if the headline is actually accurate, and it very much isn’t.
Aside from this, what I see is laws prohibiting discrimination, and people being allowed their right to protest a perform “walk-outs”, which doesn’t sound like forcing them to observe gay pride at all.
The requirement was for them to not discriminate and to not make queer people feel unsafe. A lot of the teachers chose, on their own accord, to celebrate pride. This headline is clearly intentionally emotional and grossly misrepresents a situation that deserves far more nuance.
I’d argue that right now, Canada is nothing more than very slightly centre-left, maybe. But it is far from “the other extreme”.
Fair enough. Maybe I have been injected with too much kool-aid. Ty for your balanced response
Yeah sure but the government wants to access your encrypted data first by installing a back end into your iCloud data.
Fuck trump. Canadians are our friends and family.
Fuck trump. Canadians are our friends and family.
As an American, I agree with this message 100%.
Uk here, for sure.
Hey, Canada! Have you considered EU membership?
We still use the u’s (colour, etc.). Is that a prerequisite?
That just shows that you did not fall into the degenerate ways of your southern neighbours.
I’m glad for it. Although the federal election is looming in the near distance. I really hope bootleg T***P (I just call him PP) doesn’t get elected.
I would honestly be stoked
Ah yes let’s find some other corrupted fucks to simp to.
That would actually be hilarious
And not even impossible. The EU council and commission can basically freely decide if a state counts as “European”.
I think the biggest hurdle might be that Canada would immediately be the 5th most powerful member state because of their population.
The EU is talking to Turkey about membership (on and off…), and I would say that Canada is more European than Turkey.
Actual membership for Turkey hasn’t been a serious option for a long time. Turkey knows it, EU knows it. There simply is no other label than “candidate” that could better describe what TR means to the EU. They want to keep it as close as possible, and TR benefits from it, a lot. A symbiosis, if you will. As for the Switzerland model, the EU clearly stated, multiple times, that they don’t want to repeat the unholy mess of relations they created with CH and, in fact, would rather transform it to something in line with stock EU foreign policy.
Canada even shares a border with Europe, so I would say it’s close enough.
And a continental plate
As the EU mostly does not decide population based but with equal votes per country that wouldn’t be an issue.
The larger issue is the fact that the European and US regulations clash in a lot of things so it would be harder for Canadian companies to export to the US then.
But otherwise: We would absolutely welcome you.
Canada-US trade agreements not looking so binding ATM.
If the orange turd rips it up at will, the Canadian government should too
it would be harder for Canadian companies to export to the US then.
I don’t think that’s gonna be a problem soon
We didn’t know we had that option. But hell yeah… what do we have to do? Make Google and Apple put a “West Europe” label over Canada?
“West West Europe”
I don’t think Canada should fully be in the EU, but some kind of set of bilateral arrangements like Switzerland has would be a good start.
Since Canada has lots of historical ties with the UK, it might work out well to have some kind of arrangement with the UK, Canada and the EU. That would let Britain start to undo some of the damage from Brexit, while also allowing Canada to reinforce those ties to the UK.
i was wondering around Berlin once upon a time. in the park behind the parliament.
a slightly overly helpful german said “excuse me. are you lost?” i mumbled “no no, not really”
they walked beside me for a bit and said “ah you are english. i will take you to the parliament it’s just over there”. and i agreed
then they said “your boys died for my country” which really took my breath away
so yeah we got your back cananadia. that’s what we do when the fundamentalists kick off. even if we have to die
From the UK and personally, 100% yes but not sure I feel the rest of the population would agree. I mean, a lot of us turned our backs on the EU and there’s a lot of cross over with US right wing nutters.
However, I would believe that when push comes to shove, we would be generally willing to defend Canada, Australia and NZ over anyone else, and then European countries at the next level. The reaction in support for Ukraine was pretty universal here and there are still lots of donations and support that is not shared with any African, Asian or Central/South American countries having similar problems.
Basically, you’re white so yes you can count on us!
Well we do have the same King as the UK does. That counts for something doesn’t it?
That’s a very good point and can’t believe I didn’t think of that! Surely the British army would have to protect “his majesty’s realm” or some bollocks like that.
I just read that Canada hosts Britain’s largest overseas base, although it seems to be for training purposes.
“Basically, you’re white so yes you can count on us!“
Russia?
If we rolled back a decade, Putin wasn’t around and something happened like idk, China invaded western Russia, I can imagine us helping Russia.
I should change it to “your population is mostly white so yes you can count on us”. I say this as an English born non-white person who has seen the differences in public reactions to Ukraine and other conflicts (Syria, various African ones, Gaza etc). Can’t say for certain it’s because of this reason but certainly feels like it!
I’m sure for some (sad and backwards) people it is a racially motivated position - but for many others I think it has more to do with cultural and geographical proximity.
But then our elected representatives go and fuck up the Middle East… I don’t know.
As an aside, do you know my favourite rugby chant? I’ve heard it at Wales v England rugby games:
“I’d rather wear a turban than a rose, I’d rather wear a turban than a rose, I’d rather wear a turban, I’d rather wear a turban, I’d rather wear a turban than a rose.”
I have a Russian friend who lives in (south) Wales and when he first arrived (10-15 years ago) he couldn’t understand non-white people being Welsh. Years later he realised that a green person born in Newport is already more Welsh than he’ll ever be.
The UK is a very contradictory bastard union that has - so far - somehow managed to stay in one piece.
Absolutely. Never met a Canadian I didn’t like.
