I’ve lived in Canada for a long while now and I have come to realize that the aspects I love the most about Canada come or are compatible with the European influence; by the same token, the odious bits I hate come from the dumpster fire down south…
After we go through this adjustment period, we will be much more aligned with Europe and I am actually very excited to help build and enjoy that future version of Canada
Agree so much. I’ve been saying something like this for a long time.
I welcome this change!
I doubt it will ever happen, but it would be extremely funny if Canada joined the EU, and the border between the US and Canada suddenly got loads of EU flags.
At least some Canadians seem to agree. I was honestly surprised by how positive the reaction was, even though I still think that Canadian membership would be a roadblock to the EU becoming a single, federated state.
Here’s the Problem with EU: Canada and EU negociated the CETA trade agreement from 2017. 10 of 27 EU members have yet to ratify. 9 years later. Parts of EU government work at glacial speed.
Europe needs more allies, right now they act as if they’re too weak to speak up against US. The closer the capitalistic democracies are, the less politicians feel the need to play nice to the orange bully.
The USA, bringing everyone else closer together by being the loudest belligerent asshole at the international picnic.
If you want to feel more European maybe replace your car based infrastructure with one more suitable for pedestrians and bicycles.
Have you been to Canada?
have you ever been to germany? Not really great here as well. I just came back from canada a couple of weeks ago. Some places there are definitely worse than here but some are also quite a bit better. Germany has its fair share of lobbyism from the automotive industry as well, which is especially noticeable if you live close to one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.
Also, (at least for now), it gets really cold here! I’ve wiped out trying to bike on ice.
Doesn’t Europe have cold weather as well?
Not really, no - they’re kinda famous for being temperate due to the Atlantic currents
Not just Bikes literally has a video on Norway and how it’s great to use the bicycle there. In Germany we have plenty of ice and snow in the winter. And despite the car-centricity here, getting around on a bike is still a viable option.
The biggest factor is the city maintenance of the bike paths during ice and snow. If the routes are plowed and cleaned first, then people bike. They make small sized pows just for bike roads for this very use, but cities have to buy and commit to them.
Finland has some of highest density bike use areas in the world. It snows a bit there, but they’re also smart enough to clear off the bike routes, which is apparently beyond the ken of much of the world.
You’ll want studded tyres to cycle in icy conditions. But yeah, there is no requirement to always cycle. Having it as a viable option is great though.
Anecdotally, for me biking with studded tires on an icy road feels more comfortable and grippy than biking in autumn on wet leafs. It’s crazy how much of a difference studded tires make in these conditions and how easy it is to adapt to them.
If you’re honestly saying about that about Canada, fuck off. That’s just purely 100% not viable.
Edit: lmao. Getting downvoted for pointing out it is impossible to build out a bicycle network across the second largest country on the planet. SMH The city I live in is struggling to keep the bike lanes it has.
If we had a decent high speed rail system and shotengai style downtowns… But we don’t. I spent Christmas in Sapporo once, and it was cold, wet, blizzardy, and we were able to get everywhere without freezing.
I just want to point out that it’s in the cities that are build the bicycle infras, not to cross a entire country.
But i have no idea how good or bad are those in Canada
1 in 5 Canadians live in the GTA. 1 in ten live in Montreal Area.
Ah yes, because of one statistic, the rest of Canada does not matter, right?
the second largest country on the planet
You do know that the literal largest country on the planet (also very cold and snowy) is criss-crossed by rail and has excellent public transit in many cities? Most Moscow/St Petersburg dwellers I know don’t have/need/want a car, don’t even have a driver’s license, and some of them travel around the country regularly. There is also a growing number of bike lane networks in cities, especially in the south of the country (on comparable latitudes to GTA, BTW). If russia can pull it off so can you, stop falling for car propaganda.
Political borders are absolutely irrelevant to your commute and you know it. Time to move next door to your job.
Ok, good idea, but European leaders are going to have to grow some balls.
Lmao what are the odds of coming across you here making misogynistic comments, again. You seriously seem like you can’t stop.
What are you even referring to?
Edit: something interesting, the Eurotrash likes these misogynistic comments, wonder if that could mean anything 🤔
I’m not sure what your problem is, but accusations from a list of politically correct terms taped to your computer monitor on mobile goalposts is tedious. If you disagree with a comment, downvote it. That’s how this works. Bullying doesn’t work.
Oh noooo I’ve bullied the chud again 😖
Dude shut up, every comment you make uses homophobia or misogyny to make fun of shit. You’re a typically bigoted but self-righteous Lemmy user.
Are you referring to the “grow some balls” phrase?
If so, it might be more helpful to suggest an alternative phrase like “European leaders need to grow a spine”.
Trump is the best thing to happen to Europe in a long time. That’s not meant as a compliment to poopy diaper orange baby.
He’s the best thing to happen to quite a lot of countries not named USA…
Putin is too in a weird way. Faster transition to green technologies and a massive military build up to counter Russian imperialism.
The thing that scares me about this though is all the anti privacy shit and on device scanning stuff the EU is doing. I hope they wouldn’t try and implement VAT too.
We already have a VAT. What do you think PST/GST/HST is?
…nun ja.
I like Carney
Love the idea of being closer with EU countries. Onward, PM Carney!
Diversification, it’s good not only for capitalism. Everyone is trying to grow around the US.
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Canada was always more like classy Europeans than they were like materialistic americans. This is one union I wouldn’t mind Canada joining.
As a Mexican, Americans are more like shitty Europeans, if Canadians are like classy Europeans. Just saying. I mean this by whatever their government pushes in their culture and whatever wars, regular americans (racists are not normal) are fine.
I see your point.
Sure sure, but Carney is a classic caver too. He’ll talk the talk and deliver nothing.
Canadian PM agrees to say participate in European imperialism now that American imperialism is unstable.
I know a lot of you guys are gonna get pissed at the notion that the EU is imperialistic, which it is, but I’m more concerned about what this means for the indigenous and First Nations peoples in so-called Canada. Carney has already eroded and disregarded land sovereignty as part of his “Canadian sovereignty” economic plan, and I can’t imagine that many EU nations would take issue with that.
The general public in Europe, are quite fascinated and respect and admire indigenous history and it’s peoples of today.
Moreso than the bland racist Canadian towards their own people.
That so? Then why do they hoard all the loot? Hm? Why have sanctions against countries that don’t play ball instead of say, Canada or the US, with their consistent and well documented genocide of indigenous peoples?
Europeans are insufferable, not just because they are bloodthirsty imperialists, but because so many of them feel righteous when they have a conveniently “more” bloodthirsty enforcer in the form of the US. You fucking chud.
You okay bud? Log out for awhile, that hostility came out of nowhere lmao.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_colonialism
^half a millennium of runway for this “hostility”
Bud, Euros on this site get pissed anytime I talk about reality. Also, saying that Europeans respect the millions of people whose bones they’ve built their way of life atop of is straight up bootlicking, revolting.
Imperialism, colonialism
Dude pick a street, you’re just here to argue and with that being said I bid you adieu.
lol, they forgot about the colonialism before they read that.