What happens if Canada joins the European Union
(midwest.social)
Eh Buddy HoserYour equatorial geohegemony is OVER, old man!
Please do
Big fan of the united Ireland on the map there.
Turns out Star Trek was right again.
UK isn't part of EU anymore.
The original image seems to be from here, where the resolution is quite a bit better.
https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginarymaps/comments/1j8zen7/a_greater_eu_in_a_multipolar_world_zoom_in/
Next to the UK the text reads:
"Following Brexit, Scottish and Welsh independence and Irish reunification, the former United Kingdom ultimately rejoined the EU"
Sounds like they want to be again and its probably more realistic than Canada.
Is this something that can happen within the next decade? How long would it actually take to get back into the EU/would they accept them?
There are ongoing talks to accept them back in with a clause that would punish them for leaving again within the next X years. I dont see why it would take very long IF they decide to take them.
Nice to see Canada annexes the northwest angle in this fantasy.
Edit to add: it looks like we traded a land bridge to point Roberts for it.
So much room for activities!
Suddenly, angryphones are gonna have to accept the increasing importance of French in Canada. LoL
From an Ontario perspective, we don't really care one way or the other about the French language being used. The only anti-French rhetoric I ever see tends to come from the Alberta conservatives. And they complain about everything that isn't explicitly pro oil industry.
I agree with you on that. Though I have faced discrimination in Ontario and even in Montréal as a francophone.
Active discrimination, or the cities just ignoring accessibility and not accommodating anyone for anything?
I got singled out at an LCBO by a cashier who refused to allow me to purchase anything. Her excuse was that my partner didn't have her ID. I was purchasing it for myself, but somehow because she helped me carry the bottles she had to be carded as well. When just in front of me, a man and his son had just done the same. And when I left I received a rude comment about being a francophone, even though I speak prefect English. The cashier had heard us talking to each other beforehand.
I also heard some not so nice comments about francophones in general around me wherever I went. Some nasty generalizations and stereotypes.
In Montréal it was mostly "why don't you speak English? Canada is a bilingual country yknow" type of comments from people who were born and raised here but gained so much disdain from French that they outright refused to learn the language. Which is pathetic when they themselves only speak English.
And finally there's the Gazette newspaper and CJAD talk radio that shit on francophones every chance they get. Pitting the English speaking population against the francophones.
I can't really speak to how things are in Montreal, since I've not been there in many years. Have heard that it's a Montreal problem, and things are better in Quebec City, even for tourists.
That LCBO thing is a real rule though. You'll see it enforced that way with anglophones too. A parent and their kid, they'll let it slide, but two youngish people, and they'll often card both.
We were both in our late 30s. Neither of us looked anything near underage.
Even funnier: Fascophones will then need to accept that they aren't any more special than any other language in a multilingual union. Say bye bye to the language police bullying small businesses!
Russia being obsessed with historical borders should really give back East Preussia, Vippuri and Karelen among other things.
What is the small text next to the non EU countries?
Makes about as much sense as Australia participating in Eurovision.
Maybe they're also EU members in this scenario. We don't see them on the map.
Canadians on the Black Sea is very European.
Start courting the Azeris. Get to that Caspian.
