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Originally Posted by DiracSpike
So, honest question, what about this constitutional challenge is toothless while the Quebec challenge was more legitimate?
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There is literally a
Supreme Court of Canada decision that says that a province has the ability to unilaterally determine whether it will secede. There is no court decision that in any way suggests that a province can unilaterally amend the
Constitution Act, or re-write a federal statute like the
Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, or... somehow intercept a bunch of federal income tax money before it gets to the receiver general and, what, divert it into provincial coffers? How, exactly, would they do that? I seriously have no idea how anyone is suggesting this could possibly work, logistically. It's not like the Alberta government writes the feds a check every year.