Canada should move towards integration with Europe instead of the U.S.
Canada should move towards integration with Europe instead of the U.S.
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...
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
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Wrong.
Canada should join BRICS
Ok we'll take that under consideration lol. 🤡
Yes, let's join the countries that run on slavery! Then the conservatives don't have to hide their plans to convert Canada into the North American branch of China's slave labour industry.
Canada uses prison labor. They rent out prisoners to private firms for rock bottom wages.
But that's different, right?
So which is it, liberals are too easy on crime or prisons are labour camps?
They said BRICS not the EU
Nah, those countries that are behind that are authoritarians.
As expected from a lemmy.ml comment...
Authoritarians? You mean glorious communists! /s
Hungary is in the EU, but they're white so it doesn't bother you.
@Sunshine@lemmy.ca said those countries are authoritarian, and your response is to say "so is this one, and you're racist"?
You're not even denying Sunshine's claim, you're just redirecting to a different topic and attacking the beliefs you prescribed to someone else. Just strawmen and ad hominem attacks. Nice.
Comparing Hungary to China and Russia is like comparing a mosquito to a rabid dog. Yes, Hungary is annoying within the EU, has undemocratic tendencies and Orban should be dealt with, but Russia and China are full on authoritarian regimes. You know this, so you are either a troll or a shill.
either a troll or a shill.
A tankie. To her credit, though, sometimes she makes good points about topics related to communism like class warfare and how exploitative capitalism is. This was not one of those times, unfortunately.
Just a really bad shill take of supporting the authoritarian-"communist" countries that conveniently ignore the communist ideals of no hierarchical power structures and being run by the people.
Here's the baseless accusation out of nowhere and no I do not like Hungary as Orban has been cracking down on press freedom, persecuting lgbtq+ folks and has been consistently enabling Putin's crimes against humanity.
Why won't you apply the same standard to the EU that you do to BRICS?
If BRICS is bad because Russia bad, surely EU is bad because Hungary bad?
The other countries are also not well known for upholding human or civil rights
Are Brazil or South Africa any worse than Canada?
Also, let's not forget the human rights abuses of France in Africa. Formal colonialism might have ended, but neocolonialism continues. France continues to reap the natural resources and exploit the labor of its "former" colonies. Although the recent government changes in the Sahel region might finally kick France out of Africa, and then we'll see how much they respect human rights.
Also? Let's not ignore the way asylum seekers are being treated throughout the rest of Europe.
But maybe you don't care about that either. They're not white, after all.
so you're saying Russia and China are totally not presently pillaging Africa then?
Classic whataboutism. We're not talking about the former colonies here nor asylum seekers. And you are completely out of it. You're not seeing that colonialism and asylum seekers aren't the point as they're persecuted outside their country for the latter or being persecuted by an outside force for the former. In the authoritarian BRICS regimes it's internal persecution towards their own people. It's not about skin color.
Also yes Brazil and SA are muchhhhh worse than Canada. Have you been? Clearly not. Cause going in a supermarket in Rio with heavily armed guards on alert cause you're white which means a robbery could take place any moment targeting you or in SA having to take an uber down the street to not get assaulted and robbed? Yeah.
Let’s just say that your comparison holds such a large inequivalence and hence makes the questions absurd. Maybe it’s just genuine ignorance or maybe something else…
Care to explain that a bit? I'm not that familiar with BRICS beyond the first paragraph of its Wiki page
There's a few BRICS member and partner countries in the Western hemisphere already: Brazil, Bolivia, and Cuba. In addition to the current members, the US is pissing all over its partners in Latin America and I think we can expect even more countries to join. If the US really is declining, Canada has to think about who its partners in the Western hemisphere are going to be.
But why join BRICS over the EU? (asking because I don't know)
Russia and China are involved with Brics. We do not want to become more like them.
Thanks. I'll give the rest of that BRICS Wikipedia page a glance over to find out more
It would definitely be a good read!
BRICS would want us more than EU does. EU would likely play us if their devotion to US empire/hegemony forces can sabotage any trade/membership deal. BRICS are independent of US empire sabotage, and need to break up the evil unipolarism.
It makes more sense to shore up relations in the Western hemisphere than to go halfway around the world.
Montreal to La Paz Bolivia is almost 7000 km. Montreal to Budapest is 6600ish km. So the western hemisphere also can be half way around the world from Canada. You could reverse it and argue "It makes more sense to shore up relations in the Northern hemisphere than to go halfway around the world."
Thanks for sharing your perspective :). I think Canada needs to pick options of strategic value, and in that sense I'd guess EU > BRICS for Canada but idk. Bolivia and Cuba are pretty nearby to Canada but otherwise I don't see the geographic argument so much
China might not be the worst option if you had to pick any of the BRICS countries. Lots of people, not landlocked, and huge potential for business. Canada absolutely shouldn't trust them for anything involving defense or global politics, but they at least have more stability than we do as a trade partner.
As for trusting BRICS as a whole... fuck no. Least of all, Russia.
But can we not negotiate a mutually beneficial agreement with both? The EU and BRICS?
Maybe! Without the US meddling, anything is possible.