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The Quebec version of Brexit

Old Jun 24th 2016, 7:53 pm
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Default The Quebec version of Brexit

I see there are people on t'internet and that Twitty thing suggesting that there should be a new referendum for Quebec to Qexit from Canada.

If the referendum was open for voting by everyone in all provinces and territories, I'm pretty certain that there would be overwhelming support for Quebec to leave....

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Old Jun 24th 2016, 7:56 pm
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I disagree, I believe if its open to all provinces it will be a remain for Quebec.

As for Quebec voting it by themselves, likely 'common sense' will prevail (what do they lose) & will vote to stay

Now if it was BC going the referendum vote, that's another issue
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Old Jun 24th 2016, 8:13 pm
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Default Re: The Quebec version of Brexit

Originally Posted by not2old
I disagree, I believe if its open to all provinces it will be a remain for Quebec.

As for Quebec voting it by themselves, likely 'common sense' will prevail (what do they lose) & will vote to stay
Agreed.


'Common sense' has prevailed twice now. Even the career politicians in Qc who built & staked then lost their careers on an "Independence" vote admit (not always publicly) that the ship has sailed.

The 'rest' of Canada couldn't really care less either & very likely wouldn't turn out to vote. Not that they'd ever be invited to.
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Old Jun 26th 2016, 4:54 pm
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Agreed.


'Common sense' has prevailed twice now. Even the career politicians in Qc who built & staked then lost their careers on an "Independence" vote admit (not always publicly) that the ship has sailed.

The 'rest' of Canada couldn't really care less either & very likely wouldn't turn out to vote. Not that they'd ever be invited to.
Not sure the first one involved much common sense. It was rigged by the Feds rushing through vast numbers of citizenship applications from PRs in Quebec.
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Default Re: The Quebec version of Brexit

Originally Posted by not2old
Now if it was BC going the referendum vote, that's another issue
Won't happen...
BCexit doesn't roll off the tongue so won't be understood by the media.
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Default Re: The Quebec version of Brexit

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Won't happen...
BCexit doesn't roll off the tongue so won't be understood by the media.
But just as Canada is only Toronto, maybe BC is only Vancouver... so Vexit?
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Hi
Vancouver island is next
http://www.pqbnews.com/news/383843591.html?mobile=true
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Default Re: The Quebec version of Brexit

Originally Posted by BristolUK
But just as Canada is only Toronto, maybe BC is only Vancouver... so Vexit?
In my 50 years of living in Canada, most of it in the Toronto environs, and I have never heard any Torontonian claim that Toronto is the centre of the Canadian universe. As with other countries' major centres it is important in the overall scheme of things in/for Canada, however that was more, I believe, providential than designed.
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I say if there is a Quexit then everything the federal gov't has ever implemented in order to appease Quebec is repealed, and everything other provinces have had to put in to please Quebec is removed. (Yes I realise there are other French-speaking areas of Canada but it was the appeasement of Quebec that put alot of these laws into place)
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Default Re: The Quebec version of Brexit

Originally Posted by plasticcanuck
In my 50 years of living in Canada, most of it in the Toronto environs, and I have never heard any Torontonian claim that Toronto is the centre of the Canadian universe.
I've never heard anyone claim that New York City is the centre of the American universe either. Nor anyone claim that London is England.

But one can still recognise England is very Londoncentric and images of both cities tend to dominate when people think of the USA and England.

However, you should note that my wink and tongue indicated a jokey comment and just a way of having a more catchy **exit.

Sometimes the context of a comment (what I was replying to) is worth considering rather than jumping in with a knee jerk reaction.
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Default Re: The Quebec version of Brexit

Originally Posted by BristolUK
I've never heard anyone claim that New York City is the centre of the American universe either. Nor anyone claim that London is England.

But one can still recognise England is very Londoncentric and images of both cities tend to dominate when people think of the USA and England.

However, you should note that my wink and tongue indicated a jokey comment and just a way of having a more catchy **exit.

Sometimes the context of a comment (what I was replying to) is worth considering rather than jumping in with a knee jerk reaction.
TCU is a common enough abbreviation for Toronto. I don't think people in Toronto use it because they lack the idea that there is anywhere else but it's widely used elsewhere in Canada to refer to what is perceived to be Torontonians' arrogance and parochialism. The Centre of the Universe is, of course, a derisory phrase that originally referred to NYC, I suppose Toronto should really be called TCU-lite.

It may be the case that the preceding is a tedious, dead horse flogging, paragraph but, it's on a Quebec secession thread and so right at home.
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Can we kick Ontario out, too?
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Originally Posted by MarkG
Can we kick Ontario out, too?
now there is an idea 'what if Ontario voted to separate with a YES outcome' wouldn't that make history & the collapse of Canada
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Originally Posted by Gozit
I say if there is a Quexit then everything the federal gov't has ever implemented in order to appease Quebec is repealed, and everything other provinces have had to put in to please Quebec is removed. (Yes I realise there are other French-speaking areas of Canada but it was the appeasement of Quebec that put alot of these laws into place)
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