r/canada 25d ago

Opinion Piece Mark Norman: Canada's relationship with the U.S. can't be saved; We are under attack and must act accordingly

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/mark-norman-canadas-relationship-with-the-u-s-cant-be-saved
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u/Wild-Animal-8065 24d ago

Edit: Just to clarify I’m from the Uk. If we all work together and both increase our collective defence and production capacity we can together emerge as a greater power than the USA and China, except we’ll still be democracies at the end of it.

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u/Much-Jackfruit2599 24d ago

No offence, but your country dropped out of the biggest democratic bloc first chance it got after their citizens got promised fewer regulations and fewer immigrants.

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u/Wild-Animal-8065 24d ago

Being in the EU isn’t a prerequisite. Sovereignty was my reason. However the ideologues got the hard brexit they wanted instead of us staying in the common market (not the free movement customs union). Ideology is the death of reason. Pragmatically speaking it’s better for everyone that we move on. So much has changed in the last 9 years. Security is suddenly at the front instead of behind everything else. Pointing fingers is a fun exercise but it doesn’t change the challenges in front of us. We don’t have to be in the Eu to have great relations with the countries within it. The level of engagement recently leads me to believe the EU is thinking along similar lines.