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[–] 31 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Big fan of the united Ireland on the map there.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    UK isn't part of EU anymore.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Sounds like they want to be again and its probably more realistic than Canada.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Is this something that can happen within the next decade? How long would it actually take to get back into the EU/would they accept them?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    There are ongoing talks to accept them back in with a clause that would punish them for leaving again within the next X years. I dont see why it would take very long IF they decide to take them.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Suddenly, angryphones are gonna have to accept the increasing importance of French in Canada. LoL

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    From an Ontario perspective, we don't really care one way or the other about the French language being used. The only anti-French rhetoric I ever see tends to come from the Alberta conservatives. And they complain about everything that isn't explicitly pro oil industry.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I agree with you on that. Though I have faced discrimination in Ontario and even in Montréal as a francophone. 

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Active discrimination, or the cities just ignoring accessibility and not accommodating anyone for anything?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I got singled out at an LCBO by a cashier who refused to allow me to purchase anything. Her excuse was that my partner didn't have her ID. I was purchasing it for myself, but somehow because she helped me carry the bottles she had to be carded as well. When just in front of me, a man and his son had just done the same. And when I left I received a rude comment about being a francophone, even though I speak prefect English. The cashier had heard us talking to each other beforehand.

    I also heard some not so nice comments about francophones in general around me wherever I went. Some nasty generalizations and stereotypes.

    In Montréal it was mostly "why don't you speak English? Canada is a bilingual country yknow" type of comments from people who were born and raised here but gained so much disdain from French that they outright refused to learn the language. Which is pathetic when they themselves only speak English. 

    And finally there's the Gazette newspaper and CJAD talk radio that shit on francophones every chance they get. Pitting the English speaking population against the francophones.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I can't really speak to how things are in Montreal, since I've not been there in many years. Have heard that it's a Montreal problem, and things are better in Quebec City, even for tourists.

    That LCBO thing is a real rule though. You'll see it enforced that way with anglophones too. A parent and their kid, they'll let it slide, but two youngish people, and they'll often card both.

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    [–] 6 points 8 months ago
    [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    So much room for activities!

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Your equatorial geohegemony is OVER, old man!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Makes about as much sense as Australia participating in Eurovision.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    I have heard that food would become cheaper because we’d get rid of the egg/milk/wheat marketing boards, however, heating and hydro would go up because it would be priced by the open market.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    That angle makes it look like Canada and Europe are close, but it's still a hell of a long way to transport eggs and milk and to run power cables.

    And the marketing boards cause prices to be higher because there's always an excess being produced. The problem with producing the optimal point where supply meets demand is that when something like avian flu happens the supply drops below demand and the price of eggs skyrocket and people vote for fascists.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    They can’t run power cables, but apparently it has something to do with an EU rule about no subsidies. We’ll never be part of the EU, so I didn’t dive too far into it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    Nice to see Canada annexes the northwest angle in this fantasy.

    Edit to add: it looks like we traded a land bridge to point Roberts for it.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    What is the small text next to the non EU countries?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Russia being obsessed with historical borders should really give back East Preussia, Vippuri and Karelen among other things.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Canadians on the Black Sea is very European.

    Start courting the Azeris. Get to that Caspian.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    We get the obligation to adopt the euro and we sign up to the European stability and growth pact. Both are economic straightjakets that we just don't need.

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