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Originally Posted by MBates
Question: Do you vote for Alberta to leave Canada if section 36 of the Constitution Act, 1982 is not repealed?
Yes? or No?
I mean I spent 60 seconds on this, so maybe there's a better way to put it but I am pretty sure this would cause massive turmoil.
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If that's the question, then fine, but I'm pretty sure that there are relatively few people dumb enough to want Alberta to leave Canada. I don't think that's a credible threat. Moreover, there's no actual need for a referendum if all the UCP wants to do after they form government is enter into negotiations with the Feds and other provinces about restructuring the equalization program. That's already within their purview.
The problem is with the suggestion that we can just stop sending equalization payments if we wanted to. That's the result of a general misunderstanding of what equalization payments are and how they work.