Jason Kenney should hold referendum Alberta sovereignty
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How did you ever come up with that? Resources belong to the provinces. All Ottawa does is steal what they can when nobody is looking and add to the cost to consumers.
No need to pick up arms when there is a mechanism, in place. But in the event that you're still all butt hurt about it, gather-up your like-minded comrades, assemble a bunch of pointy sticks and wander on over.
PS - There's a ton of nations that have prospered upon leaving a corrupted nation
When we imprison a people, they will want to leave. While some in the UK wanted to leave the EU since they didn't like immigrants, others wanted out since the EU's outside tariffs trap the UK within a limited market.
Hong Kong and Singapore enjoy the advantage of trading with whomever they want and are among the wealthiest states in the world per capita.
Canada is extremely protectionist compared to the US even with a protectionist like Trump in power. That gives us some idea of just how protectionist Canada is. As a result, Canada traps us within our borders. With that, I can understand why many Canadians would want their province to leave Canada since they'd look at it as a way to finally open up to the world. Unilateral global free trade and decentralization could be one of the best ways to promote Canadian unity.
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I live in Toronto. I'd love for the Constitution of Canada to recognize Toronto as a Special Administrative Region under a Basic Law that would entrench the International Covenanant on Civil and Political Rights (so no more separate Catholic and Protestant schools to the exclusion of all others), and that would allow the City of Toronto to adopt unilateral global free trade. This would allow Toronto to unilaterally drop all tariffs and quotas and then negotiate its own trade agreement with the rest of Canada, the US, and other states around the world. It could even adopt its own immigration policy too. I kind of like Hong Kongs: as long as you obey the local laws and support yourself and aren't a burden on anyone else, welcome to Hong Kong!
Toronto would face some challenges due to its being comparatively landlocked. But it does have a port and sits on a major lake that gives access to the Atlantic ocean, so that's still something. Also, with free trade with the US, anything from the US could just cross the lake into Toronto and vice versa.
This could also allow Toronto to play the rest of Canada and the US against one another. Since Toronto would be quite dependent on those markets, it could encourage Canada and the US to trade more freely with other countries around the world so that Toronto could then access their markets through either the US or the Canadian one.
Better yet, imagine Ontario voting to become a Special Administrative Region in the Constitution. If Quebec decided to join Ontario in this region, we'd then have a massive free economic zone representing around 1/2 of the Canadian polutation with the St laurence Seaway within its borders with direct access to the Atlantic ocean, unilateral global free trade, and open migration to those who can support themselves.
Toronto would face some challenges due to its being comparatively landlocked. But it does have a port and sits on a major lake that gives access to the Atlantic ocean, so that's still something. Also, with free trade with the US, anything from the US could just cross the lake into Toronto and vice versa.
This could also allow Toronto to play the rest of Canada and the US against one another. Since Toronto would be quite dependent on those markets, it could encourage Canada and the US to trade more freely with other countries around the world so that Toronto could then access their markets through either the US or the Canadian one.
Better yet, imagine Ontario voting to become a Special Administrative Region in the Constitution. If Quebec decided to join Ontario in this region, we'd then have a massive free economic zone representing around 1/2 of the Canadian polutation with the St laurence Seaway within its borders with direct access to the Atlantic ocean, unilateral global free trade, and open migration to those who can support themselves.
ANd fukk up the economy even more. Free migration means that we will soon have third world pay and safety.
And that's why resourceless Hong Kong and Singapore are more successful than Canada? They both have more open borders than Canada even in immigration. The only difference is that while it's much easier to get a work permit, it's more difficult to obtain permanent residence and citizenship.
Resources belong to whoever owns them - and whoever sells them pays the federal government a fee or tax or "excise"
The provincial governments shouldn't be fighting each other, they should be fighting the federal government together.
Why do all the psychopaths like you get a pass on the meds. Everybody is nuts except bloomer....and you take your meds too.
Projecting your feels inadequacy on others is not healthy.
From what I hear, you're in drugs and alcohol recovery currently. No?
Which explains a-lot of your posts.
