HonoredMule @ HonoredMule @lemmy.ca Posts 0Comments 3Joined 5 days ago
And it's one that will take too long to have any bearing on current challenges anyway.
That said, Dumpster's moves are mostly ridiculous because he's trying to speed run something that was coming eventually. He's just skipping the rather slow but crucial propaganda step to manufacture consent, and trying to de-integrate our economies at self-immolating speed.
I think it might be a good idea to explore membership in the Schengen Area and/or European Free Trade Association, but full EU membership is more trouble than it's worth and Eurozone membership (giving up our currency) carries serious drawbacks alongside benefits I wouldn't expect to fully realize with our geographic separation.
We can and should be looking for better economic integration as part of our trade diversification. But we also need to preserve our own internal autonomy and power, and shouldn't be expecting any meaningful protection from across the pond. I mean maybe fellow Commonwealth states will militarily support us, but not likely the EU, and definitely not within a decade. We're not like Ukraine who sit between them and a hostile neighboring state, softening the latter without costing EU lives.
There are truly so many good ones. I've never before seen such extensive creativity in name calling. It's something I go out of my way not to do with almost anyone else. But while I still try to keep things tame, it feels like I'm dishonoring myself and respectable Canadians any time I use Dumpster's real name.
While Cadence will technically report to Alto, the consortium will maintain control over both building the line and running its trains.
The federal government will subsidize the consortium’s work but will have little control over how its money is used.
It sounds like the public role is "moneybags." While Cadence is pretty much running the show, it's quite unclear to me where actual ownership lies, though. In an article of this length, that's a disturbing detail to find absent.