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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Pretty much vote pandering by Mulcair and the NDP who really opened the door to Quebec separatists entering their party under Jack Layton's blanket admission of candidates in the last election.
Right now there's really not going to be a merger by the Libs and the NDP. Its a Liberal party fantasy if they believe that any merger or agreement would be anything but the absorption of the Liberal Party corpse.
Mulcair is even more anti-liberal party then Harper is, he'd like nothing better then its death leaving the NDP as the sole left wing party in any election.
The change to a 50+1 theoretically is not all that damaging depending on the question.
I'd perfer a tougher question such as.
Would you vote to leave Canada and become a seperate nation if you knew that you couldn't use your Canadian passport, all monies from Canada would stop, all Quebec nationals working for the federal government would be fired, all social services stopped, you'd have to pay a share of the debt and the natives in Quebec could vote to leave and take thier land as well.
On top of that all Canadian government to private business contracts would be immediately terminated, especially those contracts involving national defense or federal government procurements.
Oh and your Quebec hydro contracts would be null and subject to renegotiation.
Would you still want to seperate?
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You forgot the dairy board. The rest of Canada would stop overpaying for Quebec milk, eggs and cheese.
If they want to hold a vote though I think the terms really do need to be laid out before hand. If the population really doesn't want to be a part of Canada then there is no sense in forcing them, but they have to know what that means.
I wonder how the aboriginal bands would work. Would the reserves stay part of Canada or would they go out with Quebec?