I’m a dual Canadian-EU citizen and I oppose Canada joining the EU. I’m all for tighter relations of course but there are parts of the EU legal and economic framework that Canada should not have anything to do with.

Most importantly, the EU rules for state aid make it impossible to implement democratic socialist policies that remove sectors of the economy from the for-profit market. The public options that new NDP leader Avi Lewis is proposing to correct market failures become legally impossible. The bold ecosocialist policies needed to transition away from the planet killing economic policies, predicated on infinite growth, become legally impossible.

Beyond that, joining the EU means signing on to the Stability and Growth Pact and taking up the commitment to join the Eurozone. The SGP would have made even the left-liberal policies of first term Trudeau impossible. The Euro structurally ties the Canadian economy with that of Germany’s and its sclerotic fiscal dogmatism. (You’re goddamn right I haven’t forgotten how the Eurogroup treated Varoufakis’ reasonable proposals with contempt and condemned Greece to decades of unnecessary misery.) Canada does not need them.

Of course, if the EU were to reform and climb down from the doctrinaire neoliberalism that underwrites many of its most important treaties, I would be open to changing my mind. But as it is, nope, nope, nope.

You’re entitled to your opinion, I guess. A shitty opinion, throwing people who do such important labour under the bus, but, sure, you’re entitled to it.

Yes?

Look, I’m not going to go down the stupid hole with you. No, we’re not just brutes who don’t know any better. We do know better, and we try to become better. The past is written, but the future is left for us to write. That’s the national story of Canada. Not that it was created perfect, but that we work to better ourselves.

So, here’s the crux of the issue:

The B.C. government passed DRIPA in 2019 unanimously and with celebration, making the province the first to commit to aligning its laws with the 46 articles of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, or UNDRIP. Eby, who was attorney general when DRIPA passed, says the need to pause sections of the act arose from a December B.C. Court of Appeal decision in the Gitxaala case about mining claims. In a 2-1 decision, three Appeal Court justices overturned a B.C. Supreme Court decision and ruled the province had incorporated UNDRIP into its laws through DRIPA and that the province’s “free entry” mineral tenure system, which allows claims to be staked online, was inconsistent with UNDRIP. The lower court had already found that the system breached the Crown’s duty to consult under the Canadian Constitution and needed to be modernized to allow for consultation with Indigenous nations.

So, sorry, no, Canada, BC, us common citizens, should be throwing away our constitution, and our laws and our national aspiration to build a future of Peace, Order and Good Government for a few shitty mines.

Sure, let’s ignore that this country is built on the genocide if indigenous people and pretend it’s just another interest group with no other context.

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Far right fuckface tries to make a point using a swastika.

Gus Fring meme.

We are not the same.

Maybe the Moloch of Despotism?

That sounds like misinformation.

Quite a Protestant think to say, for a supposed Catholic.

Random guy on the internet claiming to debunk the WHO, various national health authorities, and every dentist I’ve ever talked to ever. Ok buddy.

Just to cover all the bases here: what’s your take on the mRNA COVID vaccines?

I hear you. It’s already stressful and doom-and-gloom for us outside the US, doomscrolling the latest Republican madness, I can only imagine having to live through it without the protective distance. Sorry, friend. You’re not alone, even if we sometimes bark at you when we should know better.

But it does have an effect on dental health! A positive one!

I apologize for touching the nerve, and I probably used a problematic word with “banal”. What I meant to say is that in the US this has (unfortunately) become normalized, horrific as that might sound. Just this Saturday you guys had 5: https://www.massshootingtracker.site/ and we didn’t hear a pip about them here in Canada, because it’s (horribly) not uncommon any more.

Why? It’s already in place in the US. Preemptively banning the practice here makes 100% sense.

Absolutely heartbreaking. Shit like this is not banal outside the US.

It was a first probe. I look forward to when Chinese ships go back and forth to Iranian ports and the US has to decide if they are going to start WW3 for the ego of a narcissistic dotard.

Fight against AI? No sir, Carney is pushing AI like crazy.

A part of our heritage, one might say.

Don’t just give money. Money is useful yes, because of the debt, but the Lewis campaign is already signalling this: they need strong social movements feeding into the riding associations. So, get in contact (or start!) your riding association, and find similarly minded people to start intervening in your union, or neighbourhood, or church or whatever. Lewis can’t save us with a video and a speech alone.