Re: separation of powers (was Re: F-14 being destroyed instead of...)

On Jul 16, 9:20 pm, robert casey <wa2...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
IIRC, Quebec had such a referendum about 15 years ago, and it almost
passed.

Yeah, but what was the referendum about? While it was sold to the
separatists as a vote on separation, it was sold to the non-separatist
majority as a vote to renegotiate Quebec's position within Canada.
The result: Polls before and after consistantly showed that even
among those who voted YES, the majority did not want to seperate.

Even those who wanted to seperate had strange ideas - encouraged by
the separatists - that they'd keep their Canadian citizenship and
passports, that Quebec would still have a say in Canadian monetary
policy, that they could still keep all the Canadian federal government
jobs, etc. Even stranger, that if Quebec could separate from Canada,
then somehow the english speaking non-separatist areas couldn't leave
Quebec.

Since then we passed the Clarity Act to prevent such a con-job from
happening again. Any vote on separation must be just that: clearly a
vote on separation. In other words, it won't happen.

But if that did happen, we'd lose the distinction of the USA
being one of a very few countries with a discontinuity of its
territory on the same landmass (Alaska and CONUS
, aka the lower 48).

There's also the discontinuity of the North-West Angle and the rest of
CONUS. Purchasing Manitoba would fix that.

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