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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz
Fair enough, but what is being sold by Kenny is more akin to him saying:
"If Quebec had voted yes, they could have left. So if we vote yes, we can change equalization"
The question in in that decision was more akin to "Can one province compel the Federal Government to negotiate on a constitutional amendment" and the answer was "Sure".
The decision didn't say they could succeed, only that they could make the Government come to the table.
What Kenny is selling is "We can make them change it".
Well no we can't.
What we can do is make they talk about it, and follow the usual process to amend the constitution, which, as anyone will tell you, without Ontario and Quebec on board, ain't gonna happen.
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He's really not though, right after the part of his speech I quoted in my previous post from that video he says this:
"It doesn't mean we would get our desired outcome, but what it would do is to take a page out of the playbook of Quebec political leaders who have been so effective at asserting their province's agenda at the national level"
So unless you have a quote from him post-October 2018 saying "we can make them change it" you're completely misrepresenting Kenney's approach to the issue. Anyone guaranteeing anything about this fight is an idiot, it's about taking approaches that maximize or enhance Alberta's points of leverage within this Federation of which we have precious few. We can chat about whether we think they would work or not but let's not purposely misrepresent view points.