'I think NAFTA, with its ISDA provisions, is more denuding of sovereignty than EFTA/EEA. I don't think a provincial government in any EEA country has been forced to roll back decisions by a democratically elected local government, for example. (This happened in Quebec where an ISDA court ruled that Quebec's banning of genetically modified foods was to the disadvantage of American company Monsanto.)'
Nothing is perfect.
But you come up with one example of a democratically elected government having to roll back a decision versus the UK democratically elected government having around 60% of its legislation imposed on it by the EU that nobody elected..
I think I could live with the Canadian situation.
I couldn't. No point in going out of the frying pan and into the fire, or vice versa. We could just try being us. I really don't see the issue.
Everything has happened before, sadly people think history stopped and we are somehow different. Future generations will regard us as one of the most unutterably stupid generations in the history of mankind.
If everything has happened before, then people thinking history has stopped must have happened before, so those in the future thinking we were unutterably stupid for that reason would be being failed by their poor historical knowledge.
That's not why they would think we were unutterably stupid. They would think we were stupid because by any objective measure, we are stupid. Take political correctness for example. People being arrested for offensive remarks on twitter, whilst child rapists go unpunished. To the impartial observer of history, that's a civilisation circling the plughole.
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