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Originally Posted by stone hands
My point:
A referendum that has no chance of actually accomplishing anything is a waste of time and money
Please help sway my opinion as to how it wouldn't be a waste of money. Which provinces would we be able to sway to make it a majority vote to agree to change the equalization payment setup in canada
because if the answer is "maybe ontario and saskatchewan and nobody else" then its simply not pragmatic to even waste your time with this, and does nothing except waste tax dollars(the main reason we are so adamant on throwing out the current admin)
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Actually, given Ontario and Saskatchewan, along with Alberta, make up three of the five have provinces in the country and represent over half of the population of the country, if they rallied with Alberta on a need for lower equalization payments, it would put Ottawa in a bind. It's not enough to force a strict constitutional change, but it does create a lot of leverage.