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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Would you like me to list the nations who have been recognized as independent in the past several decades?
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And I would be willing to bet that all had legitimate causes for independence. Would you like me to list regions that have declared independence and never received international recogntion? We could play that game all day...
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Answer this: Per the Clarity Act, the federal government has to negotiate with any province that gives a clear mandate to pursue independence via referendum.
What you don't seem to realize is that the first nation that will recognize an independent Alberta would be Canada itself by virtue of those negotiations.
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The Clarity Act does not replace a country's right to protect its self interests.
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If Canada were to agree to set a province free, what on earth makes you think the rest of the world would disregard that?
The best comparison in recent history was the partitioning of Czechoslovakia into the Czech and Slovak Republics via their own democratic process. A dissolution which the world unanimously supported.
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Again, like the Yugoslavia and Soviet Union examples, you have a country that comprised of entities that had a history of being independent countries but amalgamated for vaious political reasons. In the example of Czechs and Slovaks, the decision wasn't even their own. Not relavent to the discussion at all.
Show me an example of a country that became independent but; a) never had a history of independence, b) shares the same culture and language of the country it belonged to, c) did not suffer tragedies such as genocides, and d) is not inaccessible due to being overseas.