• dermanus@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    I like the idea, although our provinces would have to give up quite a bit of their sovereignty which would be a hard sell politically. We have more trade barriers between our provinces than the EU has.

    We’re a good sized market, but not so big that the EU would be willing to put up with 10 exceptions to their rules.

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      11 hours ago

      would have to give up quite a bit of their sovereignty which would be a hard sell politically.

      You say that like we don’t want to work together.

      But I’m sure provinces in Germany and Spain get to have their own squabbles like our petty ones.

      10 exceptions to their rules.

      Provinces needing their snowflake exceptions get annexed by America. If the UK could join the EU there’s nothing stopping us but nostalgia; and I hear that’s not a strategy anymore.

      Ultimately, we’re gonna have to one day decide whether we’re Canadian and quit the in-fighting. If we can’t learn the lesson of Queenston Heights then we deserve what we get.