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Originally Posted by MarchHare
I've often wondered what would happen if the "Yes" side won a referendum in Quebec, but then Montreal and the Eastern Townships had their own referendum to rejoin Canada. Since current separatist mantra dictates that Quebec cannot be divisible, they likely wouldn't allow the referendum somehow. Would Canada then send in the military to "liberate" Montreal?
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I was chatting with a fellow who used to be in the Military and served in Bosnia, and he said that the split in their country happened much like what is happening in ours. Obviously he wasn't predicting genocide, but his comments were along the lines of "used to be an advanced, industrialized, civil country when one day one faction decided it wanted more rights than the other". In our case you have Quebec, who wants to seperate, wants certain recognotions, and wants to take certain things with them. One of those things is the St Lawrence seaway (and you'll have to forgive my lack of seafaring knowledge in Ontario/Quebec) but apparently there are quite a few ships that use this route to get into the Hudson Bay. It's apparently a MAJOR issue, as the owner of said seaway could easily tax any vessel using it, and could raise some pretty major cash by doing so. That said, who knows what people are willing to go to war over....
Then you have Alberta.......major resources, and in the minds of many they're worth fighting over. Realistic? Sure. Likely? Probably not.