Canada should move towards integration with Europe instead of the U.S. | CCPA
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Trump’s chaotic global tariff war, which has upended the international order, shows no sign of letting up. Presidents of the U.S. have long used trade as an instrument of power to assert economic and military dominance over the global economy. Trump however, does so against Canada and other allies—a vision driven by his pathological narcissistic…

Trump warned he will impose additional tariffs on the European Union and Canada if they band together to “do economic harm” against the United States.

Get @#$%ed, Trump. Good read. Short but detailed about how partnered we are already and what our next priorities should be

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    2·
    7 hours ago

    Not speaking for OP, but here’s what I wrote in another comment:

    But I would be squarely against closer political and monetary integration with the EU. We absolutely do not need the Euro or the Stability and Growth Pact, and we do not need the various Orbans, LePens and Melonis, or the various debt-phobic Germans and Dutch having any kind of veto over our policies or say over our politics. The Norwegian, Swiss and Icelandic models are good models of EU-collaboration, and we can of course develop our own. We can be very very very good friends, but just like we don’t need to be anyone’s 51st state, we also don’t need to be anyone’s 28th member state.

    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
      21·
      7 hours ago

      That’s reasonable. Honestly the difference between being Norway and being actually in the EU doesn’t seem that huge to me.

      The big thing we definitely need is defence guarantees. Eventually America is going to figure out they can’t have us non-violently.