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Originally Posted by painintheass
There are areas of without roads, electricity and your house is what is left from a prefabricated building placed by a logging company 60 years past. The people cut wood, hunt, have babies in their kitchens and try to live as well as they can.
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Unless you're referring to reservations (which are under federal jurisdiction) then all other poor rural areas of Quebec are the responsibility of the province. In the past 35 years which have seen quite a few PQ governments why hasn't the situation been remedied? Is it because the federal leeches are taking too much money? No. Quebec receives more money from the federal government than it transfers to it. Then what is it? What's the excuse?
Another point mentioned frequently is that Quebec will have to form it's own currency. This is not true. Any country in the world can use any other countries' currency. Separatists talk about a sovereign Quebec having a partnership with Canada (providing the rest of the country doesn't partion it self into sovereign regions) and this will likely happen. However, the transfer payments will stop and be replaced with an assistance program (normally reserved for third world countries).
Life in Quebec will not be better but if it's what the majority want then so be it.