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Old 04-21-2005, 01:19 PM  
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No country will recognize the breakup of one of the worlds most successful countries on the basis of a simple majority in one region of the country. With a 2/3rds majority, which you'll never get, you'll have international support. Then there's still the problem of what to do with the millions of Canadians in the province of Quebec who don't want to seperate. Do you tell them they have too leave or give up their citizenship? If they leave will they be compensated by the new country for their loss of property? What if they refuse to leave and refuse to accept the authority of the new government? What if the regions who voted no decide to seperate from this utopian french wonderland of New France; will you send in your army or will you accept their democratic process.

You've been sold an ivory towers pipe dream if you think a 51% yes vote gets you what you want.
sorry, in ANY real democratic country, 50%+1 is enough ;)
and no country have something to gain not recognising a indepandant Quebec

what ex prime minister Jacques Pariseau said about that

Q: How would you respond to this: Canadians are not asking the federal government how they would respond to a UDI (unilateral declaration of independence) because they know the answer. The Government of Canada would not recognize a unilateral declaration because of its composition, and could not because of the Supreme Court of Canada reference. You would really be in a moral and legal no man's land after a UDI, correct?

A: No. But I've described this often. We must have quickly a recognition as a sovereign country. I do not expect ...
Not besides France ... when you open that up, you see, you put the Americans in a sort of quandry. You know, the Monroe Doctrine and that sort of thing? It would have been awfully difficult for political change of that order in the Americas with the Americans sitting on the sideline. One of the things that the Americans will not try, certainly is to choose Quebec over Canada. Not in any way. If they can avoid recognizing Quebec because Canada would not recognize Quebec, they will. And they support you fully, wholly in this. But there's one thing they don't like -- it's that another country, a unitary country of some size is recognizing Quebec. That inevitably changes their position. They know that -- look I know this. I've discussed these things long enough with the United States to know very well. Yes indeed, the key is France
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