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Originally Posted by karl262
The current situation in Quebec will never change. That province will always be doing something totally irrational in the name of preserving their French society or just to get attention, while endlessly siphoning billions from western Canada. This legislation makes Canada look really bad on the international scale, and lumps all Canadians into xenophobic bigots with no respect for someones culture and freedom of choice. Someone from Calgary could be in the UK and people would think "These guys want to blatantly discriminate against visible minorities" . They may not understand the regionalism that occurs in Canada, but would just read the news that a province in Canada has a majority of people supporting the governments racist proposals.
I think its time that western Canada take a good hard look at leaving. We would certainly be better off economically and just be able to watch Quebec and Ontario squabble it out with this kind of garbage for eternity without having to foot the bill.
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The only thing worse (and more lame, for lack of a better word) than Quebec separatism, is Western separatism.
Yes these arguments are annoying, and having to contribute monetarily to them is almost insulting, but it's a very VERY small part of the provinces economic story. For some reason Westerners think Quebec is just this black hole where we through all of our money down. This is not true.
Besides all the other benefits of remaining part of the country, some quantifiable, some not, I'm curious to think why you'd think we'd be better off economically? Sure we boom, but we also bust. I think it's pretty short-sighted to think we'd be on easy street if we just left. That leaving would even solve any of the current 'problems' at all.
I would argue that even for the times we have to help out the East, being part of a larger economy is far more beneficial to us than the money we lose. You are also forgetting, that we are sometimes a recipient of equalization too. So it does go both ways.
Not to mention a country of 4-8 million (wherever you're drawing the lines) isn't nearly large enough to have a sustainable economic plan (barring some obvious outliers, which would not pertain to us). We'd be at the mercy of the markets even more so than Canada is now!
Lastly, I dunno why you'd say the West anyway? You think those in BC, especially Vancouver, would want to be part of that? Hah!
Like I said, short-sighted, and kinda lame. Really lame actually.
