Carney reportedly seeks ‘associate’ EU membership as Ottawa-Washington ties hit fresh low. He will address the European Parliament next week.

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[–] 24 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

I always felt closer to the EU (well probably more when UK was a member) as a Canadian. Probably lots of my household words while growing up were British (for example thong, foot beachwear vs underwear)than say American English.

I hope we get a closer tie with them regardless, we are a relatively small country by gdp and population compared to many and I don't want to deal with Nazis like it's the 1940s. I played enough stealth games, not my thing. But damn right I'll do what I can for my country even at this age, so best I can hope for is being a part of the resistance I assume but hope it doesn't come to that.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Probably lots of my household words while growing up were British (for example thong, foot beachwear vs underwear)

    That's Aussie, thong means the underwear in Britain

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    Huh neat, cause we always called them thongs growing up and grandparents were not from there as far as I knew. I thought that was a US thing (for underwear), and thong was a more British and Aussie thing. Good to know if I travel to either of those places. Half of the comment was from an Aussie comedian which I thought was closer to British terms. Perhaps I just found an outlier or I am completely incorrect in my thinking, both possible heh.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago

    I always felt closer to the EU (well probably more when UK was a member) as a Canadian.

    Because most of Canada is immigrants from Europe and we don't force people to drop their ethnic heritage to a melting pot shit culture like the USA.

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