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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its the same kind of blackmail that Quebec always uses. We want to seperate unless you give us more money so that we can pay for social programs that no other Canadian will get and no other province can afford.
I do find it offensive that as a MP and the leader of a major party he is expousing Anti-Canadian views while representing Canada on the International Stage.
I've always pretty much wished for a Prime Minister that would look the Bloq right in the eye and lay out any conditions of seperation.
1) Any Quebec employees of the Federal Government would be deemed a security threat, terminated immediately and sent back to their country of origin.
2) Your share of the national debt is payable before we allow for seperation
3) We will demand a referendum by the native's in Northern Quebec, if they vote to stay with Canada their land will immediately become Canadian Soil
4) No shared passport
5) No shared currency
6) They bank of Canada will be happy to loan you money, but you have no credit rating so we will need some collateral, like all of your strippers.
7) All Canadian property and assets including all military hardware will be returned to Canada. All Quebec members of the Canadian Forces will be discharged, if they serve with the Quebec forces they will lose their pensions.
8) The Quebec Hydro Deal will be renogotiated based on your status as a new country. If you don't like that we can just cut the lines
9) There will be no free travel, Canada Customs will now treat Quebec as a seperate nation
10) There will be a environmental toll based on your usage of the St Lawrence.
11) Canada's primary language will become English only, thanks for the massive savings.
In otherwords, if you want to seperate sir . . . please seperate.
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Quebec taxpayers certainly have a right to some portion of Canadian military property.
Quebec would certainly suffer enhanced borrowing costs on the international stage in the event of a split . . . . . although that would probably happen to Canada too.
Splitting debt would probably be a big issue . . . . many Quebecers, rather perversely, think they've been propping up bloodsucking Canadian leeches all this time rather than the other way around and do not think they have to take any debt when they leave.
There's a substantial anglophone community in Quebec and pockets where, if I remember right, anglophiles are the majority. There would have to be substantial negotiations regarding their rights in this matter and how they might be treated. (There's also a pretty interesting francophone majority in northern Alberta around places like Falher and MacLennan and Jean Cote.) There's great potential for violence in a split like this, if history around the world is any guide.
I think, however, as we've marched beyond the 1960's through early 1990's, that a majority of Quebecors have probably come to the realization they are better insulated from the economic bullies of the world within the structure of Canada than would be the case on their own.
Passions can always be inflamed, of course, but I think the moment has passed where this is a big issue. There's always going to be that 25% to one-third in Quebec, the most corrupt province in Canada, who carry the torch but even in the most inflammatory of periods, they never carrried the majority.
We are stronger together.
Cowperson
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