The former German foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel has proposed offering Canada partial membership in the European Union. "Maybe not fully integrated like everyone else, but maybe partially," the Social Democrat told the Bremen-based newspaper Weser-Kurier in comments published on Saturday. Europe must resist US President Donald Trump's push to make Canada part of the United States, said Gabriel, who was foreign minister from 2017-18 and vice chancellor from 2013-18 under then chancellor Angela M
  • @[email protected]English
    8•13 days ago

    black face

    That thing that originated in Europe? Or the American version that isn’t us?

    They’re probably talking about that time Justin Trudeau, our former PM, did something stupid and racist at a party decades ago. Actually he seems to have done it more than once. It was pretty bad, but it’s a weird thing to judge a whole country on.

    • @[email protected]English
      6•13 days ago

      Oh snap I completely forgot about that. Well, I’ll hold the behaviour of our historical leaders up against the EU’s any day. TBF they’ve had far longer to put stupid shit on record than we have ofc.