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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Quebec had an expectation that if they had voted yes to separation that they would continue to use Canadian Currency, continue to use Canadian passports, all the infrastructure that belonged to the government federally would shift to the province, Quebec based armed forces units would go to a Quebec militia, and the Federal Government never ever said "Ah no that's not how its going to work" if they had the result wouldn't have been as close as it was.
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Yea, that's because the federal government hasn't had an actual exit vote happen before and hasn't planned for that scenario. Guess what's going to happen when a vote does? The Feds would put in huge amount of penalties to prevent other provinces from separating and all the passport usage, infrastructure, that Quebec just expected to be given to them would likely come at huge costs. Everything that is not formally agreed to in writing the Feds would likely just wrest back.
Just look at how screwed the UK is getting out of the EU to see as an example of what's likely to happen. All the assumptions Brexiteers sold to the UK population ended up to be 100% false. This includes, economic benefits, access to the EU free market, etc etc.