Word: referendum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time since 1970, rent control is no longer an election issue, as the program was abolished by statewide referendum last November...
Although rent control was the divisive issue drawing voters to the polls since 1970, its abolition by statewide referendum last November means that citizens must now focus on other issues...
...first cities in the nation to test whether people who aren't professional politicians can run governments as well as or better than politicians who have been in office for years and years," says independent pollster David Binder. "What's going on now is a referendum on whether that was a good thing." So far that referendum is just about a dead heat, with Jordan slightly ahead at around 29%. But 20% of voters are still undecided...
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...
Nevertheless, the vote did have a huge impact in its expression of widespread discontent with the status quo in Quebec. If anything, the referendum should be read as a credible opinion poll, and serve as an incentive for action in the years ahead. But by no means should it ever have been read as a serious challenge to Canadian sovereignty. But then, not all things make sense in the emotion-driven world of separatist politics...