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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 days ago

Minister of International Trade says Canada should apply for EU membership: “Canada is only 19km from France.”

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Minister of International Trade says Canada should apply for EU membership: “Canada is only 19km from France.”

www.thebeaverton.com

Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caM to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 3 days ago
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Minister of International Trade says Canada should apply for EU membership: "Canada is only 19km from France."
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OTTAWA - Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu has said Canada should pursue European Union membership as part of the government’s plan to diversify trade away from the United States.
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  • WFH@lemmy.zip
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    Canada also shares a border with Denmark. At this point Canada is basically Germany

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      Iceland isn’t too far as well.

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      Yeah, but Denmark and Canada where at war, so it might not be a good fit. Too soon…

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    Isn’t France already a bit inside Canada?

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      Just the tip.

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        Juste pour voir ce que ça fait

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        La tip

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    Isn’t this satire?

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      Yes it is

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      There is still truth in satire.

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    Frens

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    But Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon isn’t part of the EU, so that argument doesn’t make much sense.

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      and neither is Greenland, iirc

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      They aren’t really self governing either.

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    Removed by mod

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      Nah France and Canada are good neighbours. Only America wants to whine about land.

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      We know and they aren’t in dispute.

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        The article has several people quoted that didn’t know the islands are french. I was attempting to play on that but my attempt clearly didn’t land well.

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