- Reaction score
- 12,296
- Points
- 1,040
Once the basic question was going to a referendum, I doubt the incremental cost of additional questions on the ballot added much. The basic question was important enough to go to a referendum and not be left to the vagaries of opinion polls.
The separatists had their democratic process and lost convincingly, although I find their support higher than I would have hoped. That should approximately end the issue as a serious discussion; undoubtedly noise will continue. I doubt the UCP will become a vehicle for a separatist party; if it does, I doubt it will last.
The additional questions which would require implementation powers outside the scope of the province might provide some fodder for federal-provincial discussion, but can mostly be ignored except as indicators of dissatisfactions which might be productively addressed somehow.
Everywhere else in Canada except QC I suppose separatist sentiment to be lower. This was the high water mark, short of any currently unimaginable outrageous impositions by the federal government on provinces or regions. I doubt QC sentiment right now approaches what it was for the prior two referenda.
Hopefully people will be able to talk about separation issues in future without some of those on the "remain" side losing their collective nut; "leavers" will probably still be irrationally impassioned.
The separatists had their democratic process and lost convincingly, although I find their support higher than I would have hoped. That should approximately end the issue as a serious discussion; undoubtedly noise will continue. I doubt the UCP will become a vehicle for a separatist party; if it does, I doubt it will last.
The additional questions which would require implementation powers outside the scope of the province might provide some fodder for federal-provincial discussion, but can mostly be ignored except as indicators of dissatisfactions which might be productively addressed somehow.
Everywhere else in Canada except QC I suppose separatist sentiment to be lower. This was the high water mark, short of any currently unimaginable outrageous impositions by the federal government on provinces or regions. I doubt QC sentiment right now approaches what it was for the prior two referenda.
Hopefully people will be able to talk about separation issues in future without some of those on the "remain" side losing their collective nut; "leavers" will probably still be irrationally impassioned.
