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Originally Posted by Slava
Well this is why these issues should be discussed and brought to the forefront. Rerun posts this thread as a way to suggest that the Liberals are morons and this will surely topple them from any former hopes for governance. The reality is that this is a very important issue, and for a lot of the reasons that you've identified.
So here's the catch. Quebec wants more power and less strings attached. They want federal money and no oversight. Hate to break it to you captain, but so does Alberta and every other province or territory. In fact the squabbles between Alberta and the feds are evident even today where they have a similar ideology and agree on a lot of issues. This is why the province is opening an office in Ottawa (the the chagrin of the federal government). There are federal and provincial issues and basically it all comes down to a power struggle on certain points.
As for some of the comments about "how can they ________?" Its pretty simple in a lot of ways. They can use the Canadian dollar as currency for example by just....using the Canadian dollar as currency. There is no real way to stop them, and its a non-factor. That's how Iceland could contemplate this as well. I doubt that an independent Quebec would (with pictures of the Queen and the constant reminders of Canadian greatness in general), but there's no reason it couldn't be done. It's true that they couldn't use our passports and things like that, but we've actually seen this play out peacefully before. Vaclav Havel who was a principal in the "velvet revolution" in the former Czechoslovakia managed to orchestrate a separation that was peaceful and other than the constant beat down the Slovaks endure in various sporting events from the better looking and more talented Czechs, its really not a factor!
(In case it needs to be said, the shot against the Slovaks is a joke...although us Czechs are clearly better looking and more talented!)
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Where did you get that from? All I did was post the headline of the newspaper story and quote part of the article. You should be complaining about Chantel Hebert and the Toronto Star (a very pro Liberal paper I might add)... not me.