Closer to #40 by GDP if they were to keep their economy as strong as it is now, which they wouldn’t as they would be landlocked and absorbed by the US in a matter of months and would then by #23 out of 51 states instead of the #1 province…
And who has the authority to decide what requires it and what doesn’t? And how do you guarantee it’s not abused?
Federal: “You need a simple majority to gain your independence” thinking the vote won’t come close and using fraud to help the no side
Quebec: 0.59% away from a yes vote
Federal: “Oh shit! Clarity act!”
If another referendum happens and they determine it’s 60% to win and it comes close they’ll just move it to 65% the next time then 70% and so on. Just ripe for abuse!
Because that’s exactly how democracy works, 50% +1 means a majority of the people want something, the rest had their chance to convince them otherwise, they can organize another vote later on to see if it’s still the will of the people to do that thing at that point.
Two of them should be careful because they seem to be much closer to being deported than the one in the middle
“and it’s not going to happen”
Just like it didn’t happen with Brexit? Just like Quebec wouldn’t have become a country if it wasn’t for fraud on the no side?
Well in politics that’s exactly how it works, the majority elects the far right, everyone has to eat shit.
But as I pointed out, the super majority required to amend the Constitution means that it will never change.
look at the process for amending the constitution or the fact that you can’t vote in unconstitutional laws.
I’m now wondering if you are Canadian because yes we actually can.
And who are you to decide what is worthy and what isn’t of requiring a super majority? And who are the politicians to decide that?
It won’t happen anyway as that would need to be enshrined in the Constitution and the reason why we don’t open it is that it would start a shitshow AND it requires a super majority to make any changes to it.
Alberta would end up becoming a US state, going from richest in Canada to middle of the pack in the US.
What it needs to do is start its version of the Bloc or actually start swinging from party to party. The Liberals have nothing to gain there (although it didn’t keep them from spending billions on a pipeline for Alberta, guess that’s what they mean by the Liberals not caring) and the Conservatives don’t need to make any effort to gain Alberta anyway (so they end up treating them worse than the Liberals even though Albertans don’t realize it).
They also need to pull their head out of their ass and stop acting like just because they collect taxes from the oil industry then can connect less taxes from their citizens. Their oil fund is worth peanuts while Norway was inspired by them and created a fund that is now worth close to 2 trillion. They can take 3% from it every year, which is more than Alberta’s annual operating expenses. They built that fund while extracting less oil than Alberta and while sitting on a much smaller reserve. Alberta’s fund could be worth two or three times as much of they had managed it the way Norway did.
The will of the people is the will of the people. Start imposing a super majority on things and watch as nothing gets done anymore.
MCGA… Has a very American ring to it
McGa
If they launch a movement the US economy is fucked
That’s what a French teacher in Alberta was saying today, being from Quebec they have an opinion on separatism may they want it or not.
“Being allowed to pollute as much as you want isn’t a national project contrary to Quebec’s project when they had their referendums.”