I have a feeling that this "made up name/category" will be a pretext for fast-tracking whatever they want to do with Canada-EU relations without the other members voting on it since the last one they tried to do is 10 years on and still pending.
Specifically I think this will be true around defence procurement: Canada was just added as the first non-EU state in the EU SAFE defence agreements, and just did a major booth at the International Defence Industry Exhibition EU defence trade show. They decided to buy new subs from Germany instead of Korea, and have slow-played the new fighter acquisitions and will potentially replace at least some F35 orders with Saab Gripens. And they have a new deal to start manufacturing Ukrainian designed military drones in Canada (partnership with Ukraine announced last week iirc?).
If getting this status helps simplify process and costs of EU<->Canada military procurement, then it will be a clear win for both sides given the current desire to reduce dependence on US defence providers.
Who are "the other members" in your message? Because if you mean all the 27 of course their government has to give approval, just like they did for the last one too
But they can't? That's not how this works? Who do you think can do anything in name of the EU, beside either the parliament, or a body made of the named representative of each government?
There is no "they" in the EU that can do anything that isn't also constituted either equally or proportionally by each and every member.
Like when we claimed that the russians had sabotaged their own pipeline rather than just stop pumping gas, after Biden declared he'd blow that thing up in case of conflict, and we are still supposed to believe it was the russians?
Housing is a municipal jurisdiction, healthcare is a provincial jurisdiction and immigration (direct, temporary, students, refugees) is a federal jurisdiction (except Quebec has its own immigration jurisdiction).
Bringing in millions of people in a short time without coordination with other jurisdictions to manage housing demands, healthcare demands and needed infrastructure upgrades was grossly incompetent.
Not quite on the epic scale of incompetence as Chairman Mao and eliminating the Sparrow (in terms of consequences) but equally as idiotic in terms of narrow minded thinking.
I was arguing that bringing in massive amounts of people in such a short time that the other levels of government have no time to plan to deal with the logistics of it.
--to be clear, my anger is at the politicians not the immigrants.
And as another comment pointed out: yes bringing in lots of people puts upward pressure on rents and downward pressure on wages which will lead to an increase in homelessness and can lead to an increase in drug use as a result (of homelessness). And then a vicious circle of drug use contributing to unemployment and homelessness.
Did you knee-jerk it because I mentioned immigration? I BLAME the politicians NOT the immigrants. Look up how many MPs are landlords. They were blinded by their own self interest.
More people leads to more competition in the job market and housing space. There's no universe in which they are not linked. It's a natural consequence of near 20% population growth in a decade
Where I live, I see massive amounts of homeless people that i did not see before COVID; despite the skyrocketing prices of real-estate before COVID. The high cost of housing was already a problem before these Wizards decided to flood the country with immigrants. They just looked at the problem of declining birthrates/population and said oh we need to import massive amounts of people in a short time to solve that problem. Narrow minded thinking. Just like Chairman Mao with the Sparrows. Look it up if you are not familiar with it. He saw the sparrows as a problem so decided to kill all the sparrows. By killing the sparrows he ended up creating a famine that killed around 40 Million people through starvation!
These clowns did something similar. They looked at the birth rates and decided to bring in massive amounts of people in, in a short time, without considering the problems that that would bring. So yeah, Chairman Mao "in the same breath".
Canada has one of the highest mortgage debt to GDP ratios in the world. That's high private debt. High private debt is what created the Great Depression in the 1930s. Bringing in massive amounts of immigrants fueled this taking on of high amounts of mortgage debt enormously via landlordism. So yeah again, Chairman Mao "in the same breath". Should mortgage defaults explode, its taxpayers who backstop CMHC. That could mean Jean Chrétien/Paul Martin style savage cuts to government services to cover those losses: i.e. austerity.
Ever since those 90s cuts to services we've had lots of people sleeping rough in the street who used to be cared for in mental hospitals. Now they roam the streets and stab people.
That, and Quebec farmers and food security. Federal Politicians need rural votes to win elections and keep Quebec from separating. Also food security is important to any nation. And in light of what tRump has done it looks like and even more important goal.
Dont be fooled. The Repugnant Party doesn't give a damn for the worker either. Its all just talk to get you to vote for them. The Dumbocrats try to sell their story by claiming they support DEI to sucker those who lean that way into voting for them. Both parties are for the corporate overlords 100%.
He's up for re-election in Nov 2026. After he wins, you can bet he will be all-in on Datacenters again and touting how wonderful for everyone they will be.
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