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Originally Posted by zuluking
What I should have mentioned is that their region's interests revolve more around how to get concessions ($$$) from ROC rather than actual separation. I think most of them would agree that Quebec would be pretty screwed if it actually separated. So far, the strategy is working quite flawlessly.
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Yup, nobody in Canada plays the game of politics as well as the voters of Quebec. It's almost like they all get together, and say "okay, we're going to mostly elect Bloc because they'll effectively lobby on our behalf and can give us the balance of power in a minority government, but we'll give a few representatives each to the Conservatives and Liberals so that they think that they actually have a chance of winning us over if they give in to our demands. And we'll even throw the NDP a bone and see if they'll support us from time to time."
Compare that with Alberta, where it's as though we get together and say, "Okay, we're going to unanimously elect the same party that we always do, even though it means that nobody cares about us, since our own party doesn't need to give us concessions and there's no point in the other parties even trying to win votes here."