So, to be clear - because you can easily find it in my post history here - my own personal feelings are absolutely on the side of ‘hold the stupid vote’. The separatists will lose decisively and at least their piss-baby tantrums will switch to a new phase while the grown ups get to continue taking care of business.
But, my personal feelings of impatience, and yours, and Halifax Tar’s don’t mean that any group of people with a grievance get to force through a legal process that tramples on the very long established rights of Canada’s indigenous peoples. That’s just reality, and thinks that we’re done sloppily and unilaterally in the pst don’t override that.
Let the secessionists show they can be taken seriously by forming provincial government on a platform of secession and at least earning a democratic mandate to enter into earnest and meaningful discussions on the matter. Quebec was able to at least achieve that, even if their secessionists’ loss in two referenda prevented them having to then confront the legal hash they would have tried to make of things following a hypothetical ‘yes’ vote.
Secession is a negotiation between governments, not an ultimatum by a bunch of Twitter users. Let them demonstrate that they can win and keep the confidence of their provincial legislature by getting the support of voters and forming government with an overt secessionist platform, and then go from there. If they can’t even get voted in to run the province, they can frig off.
