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Joachim Streit has never stepped foot in Canada. But that hasn’t stopped the German politician from launching a tenacious, one-man campaign that he readily describes as “aspirational”: to have the North American country join the EU.
“We have to strengthen the European Union,” said Streit, who last year was elected as a member of the European parliament. “And I think Canada – as its prime minister says – is the most European country outside of Europe.”
While he admitted that the possibility of Canada as a full member of the EU “may be aspirational for now”, he wondered if it was an idea whose time had come.
“Canada would be a strong member,” he said. “If Canada would be a member of the EU, it would rank 4th in terms of GDP. It’s part of Nato. And 58% of (working-age) Canadians have college degrees.”
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Are they driving the vehicles across the ocean to ram you?
Cars don’t kill people, people kill people. Go look up vehicle ramming attacks by migrants in Europe the past decade.
Ignoring whether this is a thing or not, those migrants would still be in Europe… Not Canada. The European Union and the Schengen zone are not the same thing.
And it’s not a thing btw.
We’ve already had people in cars in Canada ramming Muslims, but joining Europe isn’t going to cause a guy in Europe to drive across and ram a Canadian family. They would have to travel here first, and if they are the type of person to plan a flight to rent a car to ram people, they are going to do that anyway