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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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.
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The continued conflation of whether it is dumb or credible or needed with whether it is fancifully impossible is the problem I am trying to combat.
It can be done plain and simple as the question I wrote. Kenney can follow through precisely on the promise he is making...and yet law professors just declare him a liar without reading the legal precedent.
Which, I think you may have done also because you dropped the link to the Quebec Secession Reference as the SCC authority confirming "that a province has the ability to unilaterally determine whether it will secede."
This is, not what the SCC case says at all...they can unilaterally force a negotiation by a clear referendum saying they want to secede...but then its a full blown negotiation with the whole federation that may or may not result in an agreement.
In principle, the same process could be followed by any province to force the rest of the country into any constitutional amendment negotiation they see fit.