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...interesting that throughout the torturous months that gripped Canada in the run-up to the Quebec referendum, no serious challenge to the simplistic and unjustifiable definition of a separatist "victory"--a mere 50 percent of the vote--was posed...
Breaking up a peaceful and well-respected country certainly qualifies in my book for the supermajority condition, but this was never an issue in the Quebec referendum. It is hard to see how serious debate took place without questioning this central assumption, that it is somehow justified to remove a province from a federation on the decision of a mere half of its eligible voters. What of the other half? This case is interesting because it is not merely an academic argument: the uncanny behavior of Canadian voters produced a near 50-50 split, the vote being decided 50.6 percent...
Then there is the question itself. Quebeckers were asked the ponderous "Do you agree that Quebec should become sovereign, after having made a formal offer to Canada for a new economic and political partnership, within the scope of the bill respecting the future of Quebec and of the agreement signed on June...
...Angeles Times last summer that Quebeckers would be trapped like "lobsters in a pot" once they voted "Yes" to his packed question, further throwing into doubt his sincerity in negotiating with the rest of Canada. I think he just wanted to mint his face on a new Quebec-franc coin. He'd have been the founder of a new nation, after...
There should not have been any reason to fear that the Quebec referendum, with its misleading question and ridiculously low threshold of success, would have any serious moral legitimacy. And this is to say nothing of the secession requirements in international law that a minority be persecuted, that the parent country concur and that the secession receive broad international recognition...