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Originally Posted by Lubicon
Depends on how you define 'battle. It's true they likely would not win on legal grounds in terms of whether we could 'opt out' etc. but that is not what the UCP envisions. By having a referendum, and if that referendum passes, then the Federal government is forced to negotiate equalization again in good faith - they do not have a choice. The entire point of the exercise is to bring attention to the program and it's flaws and to force a new discussion.
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Pretty sure 7 of 10 provinces would need to agree to that change in formula. Do we have 7 provinces willing to go along with the bread and butter province wanting to pay less? I feel like Doug Ford's Ontario would go with it, but most others would reject, and it would be all for not, and a waste of time and money.