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Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'

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  1. delichon · · focus · HN ↗
    Reaction from the Canadian opposition leader:

      The Prime Minister can’t seem to get his story straight about the “associate membership,” “unique alliance,” or whatever else he is negotiating with the EU.

  Conservatives are clear: we support the decades-old free trade & NATO defence alliance with Europe.

  But no EU taxes, no EU laws, and no EU open-border immigration policies should be imposed on Canadians.

  Canada must be independent and sovereign. Period.
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    1. sicktriple · · focus · HN ↗
      Classic Conservative move of building a strawman and arguing against it. None of these deals would involve taxes, EU &quot;laws&quot; (whatever that means) or border agreements. He&#x27;s using the boogeyman of &quot;ew brown people&quot; to scare his base.

      Apparently, even Canadian conservatives are happy to grovel at the feet of the Burger Reich and their supreme leader.

      1. rdm_blackhole · · focus · HN ↗
        &gt; None of these deals would involve taxes, EU &quot;laws&quot; (whatever that means) or border agreements.

        It&#x27;s a bit rich to say this when nothing yet is known.

        If Carney or the EU did not want the oppositions to start speculating regarding what it entails, maybe they should have talked about exactly what an associate membership means and what of sort of things could be expected from such a move.

        Maybe they are wrong or maybe you are and maybe it will involve EU taxes and EU regulations or maybe since you are absolutely certain of what it entails you have some sort of insider information that nobody else has?

        Until such a time as everyone knows and understand what a possible associate membership means for the EU and Canada, then nothing should be considered off the table and it is justified to ask questions and get some clarifications on all of this.

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