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Originally Posted by BlackPhoenix
Jean-Martin Aussant (again) made an analogy: Québec has $50 to spend on music. Ottawa takes that $50, spends $20 to administer that money, then purchases $30 of music that Québec doesn't like.
There are many videos of Aussant on YouTube, but unfortunately those where he explains the financial reasons are all in French.
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Isn't that a more a figure of speech? I mean :
- blatantly overstating administration expenses;
- ignoring the fact that anyway you would have to cover the administrative expenses;
- ignoring the fact that your tastes aren't homogeneous, but merely you have a chance that slightly different purchase would be made from public money (Ex, hypothetically in whole Canada 60% prefer solution A and 40% prefer solution B; while in Quebec its 40% for A and 60 for B%) Sure, you could get a slightly more liked idea but nothing shockingly better.
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Trade: an independent Québec would have the ability to negotiate its own trade agreements, rather than being imposed whatever Ottawa decides - and Ottawa's interests are not the same as Québec's.
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May you elaborate that? What would you change? Except the part that you would have to make the whole diplomatic work one more time. (an be hit by ex. lack of some double tax treaty signed on time)
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Originally Posted by Wippit Guud
Quebec and Going Broke:
1. If Quebec were to leave, a foresee a lot of foreign investors pulling out. Brand new countries are not a stable place to invest money into. Along the same token, I see Canada's economy taking a hit for the same reason.
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Come on, they would a stable, first world democracy anyway - nothing for business to flee in panic.