Will Canada fall apart?

[Unionist]

Considering these articles:

http://www.sermonaudio.com/new_details.asp?ID=20081

http://www.sermonaudio.com/new_details.asp?ID=20516

mice are nibbling at the Canadian map. What do our Canadian friends think about this? If Quebec becomes independent, and the western provinces separate, what will be left? Ontario, the Maritimes and the Territories. That would be a weird situation. What do they have in common? Will we end up with 5 new countries?

[gallio]

Considering these articles:

http://www.sermonaudio.com/new_details.asp?ID=20081

http://www.sermonaudio.com/new_details.asp?ID=20516

mice are nibbling at the Canadian map. What do our Canadian friends think about this? If Quebec becomes independent, and the western provinces separate, what will be left? Ontario, the Maritimes and the Territories. That would be a weird situation. What do they have in common? Will we end up with 5 new countries?

First off, the chances that Quebec will actually separate are not that great. Right now, there's a discussion going on in Quebec why the province is doing poorly compared to the rest of the Canada, the US, most of Europe etc. Lower productivity and income per person etc. Reason is that Quebec is more left leaning than the other provinces, has higher taxes, higher government spending, more union control over the economy etc. I think that if push comes to shove, most Quebecers would rather solve their economic problems first rather than jumping into an unknown experiment with independence.

For the last 30 years, polls show support for independence fluctuating between 40% and 50%. The only chance at their quest for independence succeeding is by perfect timing of a referendum and deluding enough people into thinking that an independent Quebec could do better without Canada than it does with Canada. Right now it still gets more from the other provinces than it pays to the rest of Canada.

What would happen if Quebec does secede is hard to say. Most likely the other provinces and territories would come to a new agreement how to share power, funding etc. Even without Quebec, the advantages of working together should be big enough that they outweigh the disadvantages of having a country separated by 1000 miles of foreign territory.

[rj]

I don't think Canada will really fall apart. I remember reading that almost 70 percent of Quebeck was against seperation. But time changes of course.

I wonder how it would turn out though. Eventhough there are a lot of differences between the provinces I wouldn't like it if the home and native land would fall apart.

I heard that everybody in Alberta get's $400 of the provincial goverment because they're doing so well! Mind that ever happens in this country.