Der Spiegel: Time For Canada To Join The EU
Posted on Friday, March 04 at 10:58 by abraaten
Those difficulties were followed in the '80s and '90s by increased co-operation. But in recent years, Canada has promoted the International Criminal Court and ratified the Kyoto Protocol, putting Washington in a "huff." "Since Bush's election, both societies seem to be diverging," it adds. "It's become easier than ever for Canadians to define their identity as the opposite of that of the America of the Republicans."
Ottawa long ago did away with the death penalty, it has strict gun control laws and the list of diverging societal values is growing. Now Canada wants to introduce same sex marriages, which the US has rejected. And unlike Washington, which has a zero-tolerance policy on drugs, Ottawa is planning to decriminalize small quantities of marijuana.
A recent poll found that 33 percent of Canadians believe faith plays an important role in their daily lives compared to 60 percent of Americans. "Canadians believe they view the world in a more 'international' way," Handelsblatt writes, "that they believe they are more European when it comes to their views of 'social values'."
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,344556,00.html
[Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on March 4, 2005]
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
As for the South America countries, I think they're pretty suspicious of Canada, with our insistence on imposing draconian agricultural and intellectual property policies on them via the WTO. We're just another rich northern country to them.
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If you don't like these ideas, I've got others. --Marshall McLuhan
As America collapses in on itself out of greed, fear and stupidity, we need to find ways to survive the pain that will come with it.
well as the $US. <br />
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See:<br />
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<a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0303-26.htm">http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0303-26.htm</a><br />
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"Its military has been stretched to the breaking point by the occupation of a <br />
single weak country, Iraq. Its economy is held hostage by Himalayas of <br />
external debt, much of it in the hands of a strategic rival, China, holder of <br />
nearly $200 billion in Treasury bills. Its domestic debt, caused in part by the <br />
war expenditures, also towers to the skies."<br />
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and<br />
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"No sooner had the President arrived in Europe than an economic trapdoor <br />
seemed briefly to open beneath his feet when the South Korean Central Bank <br />
stated that it intended to move some of its holdings from the dollar to other <br />
currencies, causing a 174-point drop in the Dow Jones average. The next day, <br />
the bank disavowed its report and the dollar recovered, but not before the <br />
fragility of America's economic position in the world had been revealed."<br />
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On the balance sheet (financial only!) each and every American is in hock for a <br />
couple hundred K to the rest of the world. Canadians, I'm told, are net-worth <br />
something. If you run a relatively small organization, and the customer with <br />
whom you do 80% of your business is dealing itself into bankruptcy, what do <br />
you do? I don't care how far to the "right" you are--in fact, the further the <br />
better if you're the fiscal sort of conservative--keeping all our eggs in the <br />
"continentalist" basket at this point is just plain stupid. <br />
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There are no doubt a few nations wondering if the time isn't right to think <br />
seriously about the petroeuro. If that happens, look out.
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The midget, Bush, and that Rumsfield deserve only to be beaten with shoes by freedom loving people everywhere.
- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, The Iraqi Informat
two little islands off the shores of NFLD
The EU doesn't have to be in continential europe
about to tank and possibly drag Canada's down with
it, it makes sense that Canada should do everything
possible to extricate itself from its heavy reliance
on the U.S. to absorb its exports. Closer ties with
the EU would help lessen the economic fallout.
But joining the EU - I don't think Canadians should or
would go for it.
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On the other hand I wish for Canada to survive as a independent nation.
Kevin
I don't think we want US economy challenged as we would be challenging ourselves. We go the way the US economy goes.
I can picture voting with EU on some sanction and Canada probably go along as we join everything. This would cause us major problems. Putting 85% of trade at risk to gain 10 or 15% doesn't seem helpful. Besides with our close ties to America I doubt on many issues the EU would trust us.
Does this make any sense at all to anybody or just to me?
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Have a look at what a der spiegel did to bribe Palestinean's into 'celebrating' WTC 9/11.<br />
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<a href="http://members.tripod.com/thinkagaintv/Palestinianscelebrating.html">http://members.tripod.com/thinkagaintv/Palestinianscelebrating.html</a><br />
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Are you going to trust anything out of the 'pusher media' these days?<br />
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I don't<br />
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including Der Spiegel
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<a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12422215-2,00.html">http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12422215-2,00.html</a><br />
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When MacLean's Magazine asks whether or not America is going broke, it's time to examine your options, or at least debate them in forums like this. I'm glad it was discussion-worthy.