[calgarygeologist]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

I don't think their core messsage is about separating right now. It's about representing Quebec values in a federal Canada. Sovereignty has taken a backseat to ensuring and retaining cultural and economical rights for Quebecers. Heck, the byelection yesterday demonstrated there's not an overarching appetite for the Bloc to begin with; the Libs and NDP were right there too. There isn't some new separatist push from younger voters.

What advantage is there allowing for a Conservative supermajority? What has the PP crew or the CPC said with regards to meeting Bloc platform planks?

The Bloc is not about representing Quebec values in a federated Canada at all. Feel free to look through their website about the values and mission:

So that Quebec can govern itself, according to its priorities and values
Quebecers form a distinct people, a nation with its own identity. What makes us a unique nation is based on our culture, our language, our history, our collective heritage, the structure of our economy, our social system, our desire to live together and to endure in history.

We want to make Quebec a country because for a nation, governing itself, for itself and according to its own ends, its own values, its own culture and its own laws, both internally and externally, is essential to achieving its full development.

It is by managing our taxes, our international policy and our laws ourselves that we will be able to achieve our full political, economic, environmental and cultural development.

To establish economic policies according to our interests
Instead of spending all its taxes on its own interests, as an independent Quebec would do, the current Quebec sends half of them to Ottawa, which often spends them on programs from which Quebecers do not benefit.

While Quebec has financed its entire hydroelectric network alone, the federal government is currently using our money to subsidize Newfoundland's hydroelectricity, which will compete with ours on American markets.

During the 2008 economic crisis, the federal government invested $14 billion to support Ontario's automobile industry, while Quebec's forestry industry received only $70 million. Almost nothing for our world, in other words!

While Quebec produces clean hydroelectric energy, English Canada's economic development model is based on the production of dirty oil from Alberta's tar sands. Quebec has no interest, neither financial nor environmental, in allowing pipelines, ships and trains full of Alberta oil to pass through its territory. We all remember the tragedy that occurred in Lac-Mégantic...

These few figures show that Quebec does not live off the federal government. For example, when we compare the amounts of equalization transfers per capita, Quebec is even last among the beneficiary provinces.

By becoming an independent nation, Quebec will spend money according to its interests.

Independence will open the borders where important decisions are made, allowing Quebec to participate actively in major international forums, to sit at the UN and in Kyoto, and to play a leading role in the Francophonie.

Canada is currently speaking on behalf of Quebec in all international matters: relations with repressive regimes, climate change, international aid, etc.

An independent Quebec will be able to assert its ideas and values ​​internationally. An independent Quebec will have all the levers to fully support its entrepreneurs, artists and athletes in order to shine even more in the world. When will Quebec teams be in international sports competitions?

And so on, and so on. This certainly doesn't sound like their purpose is to maintain their standing within confederation.