If Quebec should decide to hold a referendum and the Quebecois vote for leaving Canada, the fun starts. 1. Aboriginals will refuse to give up their traditional territory. 2. The St. Lawrence Seaway is jointly owned by Canada and the United States; Quebec has no claim to the lands set aside for the Seaway. 3. Montreal is an island in the St. Lawrence and may not be part of a new Quebec. 4. All federal facilities (and English speaking employees) in Quebec would have to relocate. 5. Air Canada could not continue maintenance operations in a foreign nation. 6. The Port of Montreal would wither as Canadian companies would have to find an Canadian location for imports and exports. 7. Airlines would cease landing in Quebec until they could negotiate landing rights with the new nation. 8. The Canada Space Agency could move from Saint-Hubert to Calgary. 9. Federally licensed financial institutions (all banks, for example) could no longer operate in Quebec. 10. Bilingual courts and a bilingual federal civil service would be history. 11. The Official Languages Act would be history. 12. Thousands of translators we now pay for would be out of work. 13. We would have 78 fewer Members of Parliament to pay for. 14. We would have 24 fewer Senators to pay for. 15. The NDP would lose 57 seats including Mulcair’s; 16. The Liberals would lose 8 seats including Trudeau’s. 17. The Conservative party’s majority would increase from 52% to 67%. 18. We would save about $20 billion annually in federal transfer payments - which could be used to pay down the federal debt. 19. We could save another $543 million in funds currently earmarked for bridges over the St. Lawrence and in and out of Montreal. 20. We would no longer support Bombardier. 21. All military aircraft work contracted by Canada would have to leave Quebec. 22. Goodbye to the CBC French language networks. 23. No more French language. I cant think of any good reasons not to cheer them on. Go Pauline Marois, go take Quebec out of confederation.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 05:29:10 +0000
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