observantTrapezium

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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • My boss’s mom was on the MS St. Louis, and came to Canada eventually many decades later.

    And my phone bill is CA$19/month in the most populous city in the country (Public Mobile, I think I have 1 GB a month that I never get remotely close to using up, unlimited calls and texts). I know that by international standards $19 should get me more than 1 GB, but just putting things in perspective.


  • I would love closer ties, even very close like customs union and freedom of movement. Also personally I’m not attached to the Canadian dollar, and if it made economic sense to replace it with the Euro I wouldn’t mind.

    I’m not sure what a “European Republic” would entail. I assume that means that a lot more issues will come under the responsibility of EU institutions such as the EP, as opposed to local governments. Canada is big enough as it is, and people often complain (rightfully or not) about bad decisions made in far-away Ottawa. I think Canadians won’t like to delegate a significant chunk of our sovereignty to Brussels.

    And anyway as you pointed out the EU is far from perfect. What bothers me the most is the frequent need for unanimity and the ability of small countries like Hungary to block fairly routine decisions about spending. In Canada unanimous consent is required only to depose the King or something like that.