Unify Action - September 22, 2026


He Thought “Canada Should Join the EU” — THEN A German Student Walked Up

Hosted by
Sarah Dotzert
Mentioned
Donald Trump Mark Carney
They Thought We Should ＂Tax The Rich A＊＊holes＂ - They Panicked When I Said This

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9 minutes

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1,562

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54

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00:00:00.000 Join as a member of EU gives us another title instead of just being a country.
00:00:04.500 Another sign of saying that, nice, we can make our own decisions.
00:00:07.740 Germany. 0.97
00:00:09.020 Well, hey, come tell me.
00:00:11.360 Is any partnership with the EU bad?
00:00:13.600 I would say so.
00:00:17.100 Are you saying this statement based on a fact that we should not
00:00:22.180 because we are not having our full trading sovereignty against the outside world, Alcala?
00:00:28.820 or is it just a inherent or internal decision regardless of external factors um so i think it
00:00:38.180 i think we should not join because there is a lot to lose from joining so if it were just trade
00:00:44.960 then i'd be like okay why do we need the membership title why does it all need to be ratified through
00:00:51.140 the eu it implies that there's more going on than just like trade letting canada have more access
00:00:57.500 to it right now we have 99 of our trade with eu is tariff free right and that other one percent is
00:01:04.540 like dairy and eggs and other stuff that is not actually going to be removed so we're not
00:01:09.360 removing tariffs all we're doing is saying okay hey let's do more mineral uh mineral deals and
00:01:17.360 defense deals and other things like that so i don't understand why it necessarily needs to be
00:01:22.560 an eu membership in any sense yeah so my second question is um sorry give me a quick second now
00:01:32.900 so you just said we're joining eu as a trading partner but in essence yeah won't earn more right
00:01:40.340 i don't think so are we joining as a country who get to set the terms that she was talking about
00:01:46.000 for your person and or are we joining because we desperately want to be a part of the member
00:01:51.440 so we will put ourselves in a more, like, followers...
00:01:57.500 Yeah, I don't fully understand what Mark Carney is putting forward with this.
00:02:02.440 I think part of it is to screw over the United States
00:02:04.920 and we want further trade deals with other people,
00:02:09.080 which I understand, okay, we can make further trade deals,
00:02:11.560 but why join an elitist group, right?
00:02:14.500 The EU, when we're talking about any country in the EU,
00:02:17.300 the EU is supreme over their parliament, over their courts, over their law, what the EU says
00:02:25.540 goes. And that's with any membership or anyone who's like a partnership with the EU, their
00:02:32.580 regulations in the area that they partnered have to be supreme. So my assumption is that any
00:02:37.760 regulations, any sectors where we partner with, their regulations would be supreme. And I don't
00:02:42.820 necessarily agree with that i think we should have some trade yes and i think we should we can
00:02:48.820 even increase our trade but and maybe remove even more tariffs if we could that would be nice
00:02:53.320 but i i don't understand the whole membership spiel to me it seems a little iffy and why do
00:03:00.060 we need the title when we could just say we're doing another cita all right so uh i'll make some
00:03:06.100 quick responses okay go ahead so first of all like i personally don't really care if they're
00:03:11.720 want okay so i'm speaking as if i'm just speaking and first of all i think joining as a member was
00:03:19.980 the response toward ask canada toward the united states toward other trading partners that we as
00:03:28.820 a country get to choose our partners we as a country get to choose who we join and we as a
00:03:33.920 country get to make our own decisions instead of being hostile by let's say terrorists being scared
00:03:41.200 of different regulations or being affected by some other country's decision right right second
00:03:49.100 of all that we join um joining eu is a free decision of a country yes and leaving it on the
00:03:57.960 other side is also a free decision of the country difficult but well i will arguably say it's
00:04:03.960 rexick took a rexick took a really long time sure so but it is your country's decision to do so
00:04:10.000 right so i will not put joining the eu as a permanent term but more like a temporary and
00:04:17.520 state that it can change any time or let's say ideally it can change any time and third of all
00:04:26.160 we join as a member gives us another title instead of just being a country located like 10th 11th
00:04:34.080 biggest economy in the world sitting beside the united states and we as a country join as a member
00:04:41.220 of eu is another flag or another sign of saying that nice we can make our own decisions and we're
00:04:48.340 not relied on any party specifically so then joining the eu in essence would be a symbolic
00:04:58.360 gesture to say screw over trump yes or sure we can simplify it in that way but we can say we
00:05:05.320 get to screw over anybody if we want to yes but politically just think about it donald trump is
00:05:11.040 only going to be in for maybe two more years two and a half ish so he's not going to be there
00:05:16.760 forever and the whole sentiment to join the eu is not going to last forever and eventually we'll
00:05:23.840 probably have a u.s president who is going to want trade again so i don't understand why we're
00:05:28.960 rushing to do something like this while we could wait it out and wait for a more trade-friendly
00:05:34.740 president sure um i mean joining eu i think you're trying to lead into a way that's saying
00:05:40.660 joining eu stops the trade with america but that's not the truth well hey come tell me
00:05:47.080 Is the EU, is any partnership with the EU bad?
00:05:52.080 I would say so, not because like for the European Union, I'm from Germany and for you, for Germany for example it's kind of bad.
00:06:03.080 Why? Because we're one of the richest countries and Canada in comparison to other European Union countries is also kind of rich.
00:06:09.080 So what the European Union does is it kind of distributes all the money from other countries fairly.
00:06:16.080 Fairly. And now, for example, we have Italy. It's high in debt. We have Greece. It's high in debt.
00:06:20.880 We have other European countries that are high in debt.
00:06:23.100 And what those rich countries as France or Germany have to do is paying off those debt.
00:06:27.320 And this is not a kind of beneficial for Canada, Germany, etc.
00:06:32.480 Okay.
00:06:32.900 That's one of the reasons.
00:06:34.080 Yeah. One of the things that we were just talking about, though, is what our Prime Minister is floating around is an associate membership with the EU.
00:06:41.560 Yeah.
00:06:41.980 So where we would have deeper trade partnerships, we have a trade partnership already, but we would have the title of associate member and deeper access to their markets.
00:06:51.820 Is that a good idea?
00:06:54.820 I don't, I'm not a quite expert with the current relationship between Canada and the European Union.
00:07:01.680 So I think you're more of an expert than me.
00:07:05.640 Does it really change the status quo in the economy, like with the free trade and stuff?
00:07:10.200 Does it change something if Canada is an associate member?
00:07:14.040 We don't actually know for sure.
00:07:15.960 All we know is that we're going to be deepening our ties with the EU
00:07:20.380 as far as defense and mineral usage and AI and quantum and a few other sectors,
00:07:27.420 but they're leaving agriculture out of it.
00:07:29.880 And we know from other associate members is that their regulations are going to have to trump ours
00:07:35.320 when it comes to those specific places where we partnership,
00:07:39.200 where we have that partnership.
00:07:40.200 So their regulations are going to be above ours.
00:07:42.760 So that's where we're at right now.
00:07:46.620 And a lot of people are skeptical of it.
00:07:49.360 I am.
00:07:50.080 Because I find that governments always tend to expand and get more control.
00:07:55.820 And if we have this control now, it's like, yes, it is like a jab at Donald Trump.
00:08:00.180 It's a jab at the U.S. to say, hey, we're going to screw you over.
00:08:05.560 We're going to trade with someone else.
00:08:06.660 We're going to diversify our trade with any number of countries.
00:08:10.200 But the as we were just saying, the the U.S., Donald Trump, he's not going to last forever.
00:08:18.080 And logistically, it is more expensive to trade across the ocean than it is with the United States.
00:08:24.300 So I see it more as we need to like if we partnership, if we have any partnership with the EU, then OK, maybe we'll still have our own regulations.
00:08:34.600 but we may have to implement other things more regulations here to be able to supply that sort
00:08:41.560 of partnership for sending minerals over we need to process them more than that's money that we
00:08:46.520 have to spend which i don't understand why we need to we should be developing our minerals here and
00:08:54.320 developing our industry here instead of sending them overseas yeah i think that's also just a
00:08:58.720 problem of the EU with many, many things that are regulated that are keeping all individual
00:09:05.140 countries kind of like a metaphorical jail, kind of, that just restricts how they act.
00:09:13.120 And I think probably when Canada somehow joins in a somehow realm joins the EU, those restrictions
00:09:20.960 will just swap over.
00:09:21.960 Okay.
00:09:22.960 Yeah.
00:09:23.960 Thank you.