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Originally Posted by New Era
Glad you have so much confidence in Canada.
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He's right.
Once you open up the constitution to add new provinces, all bets are off. Things like Quebec's status within the nation, the grandfathering of rights and privileges to the Maritimes, equalization, bilingualism (or trilingualism as Spanish becomes #2 if California were to ever join), CPP, etc.... all of that comes up for discussion.
Does Quebec want to become 10% of a new nation, do AB, BC and SK find a better deal with the West Coast going solo, or a better deal as part of a greater whole, where do the FN slot in, does Ontario except no longer being #1?
There's a reason why when Turks and Caicos was being discussed, Nova Scotia was considering annexing it in order to avoid a new province scenario.
In my view, Canada stays as it is, or splinters... we're not bringing in new provinces or territories. Too many underlying fault lines in Confederation held together by the fact that change is difficult and unpredictable.