I was at dinner last night with some people that argued Quebec should separate from Canada because the UK just did it and it's awesome... can't argue with uninformed people :(
It was super close the last time they had a referendum for that, though. 94% turnout, 50.58% vs 49.42%.
Yeah, the separatist's loss was attributed (probably rightly) to the "ethnic vote" which caused a whole debacle about the Quebecers being a bunch of racist xenophobes. A reputation that still stands to this day. I don't think they'll ever get as close again, the youth mostly doesn't really care about politics, and there are a lot more immigrants now that there were back then. But it kind of sucks our provincial politics are still divided by separatist/federalist policies. I'm stuck voting for ONE party because everyone else it at least somewhat separatist and I refuse to fuel their shitty fire. Provincial elections suck.
That's why I called it stray talk. But it's there. Hell, even The Guardian entertained the idea a few weeks back.
Yeah. But I mean, you're still doing it too much credit, right? It's not anywhere near the same process. I guess you probably live in Texas? I used to as well. No one thinks about that on any meaningful level except Perry's idiots when they're trying to garner kneejerk votes from people who think it's funny to say that Lone Star is the national beer of Texas.
Honestly? I don't think I'm giving it much credit at all. First I admitted it was stray talk, then I linked to a Wikipedia article showing how the people who take the subject seriously are a half bit loony. Even in my original comment I said such a thing would "be a bad idea." We're honestly in total agreement here from the get go.