[ridenrain]

Very well put, Zipperfish. We've been playing this game ever since I can remember and it's gone no-where except into the pockets of a number of well placed individuals. It's been the cornerstone to all Canadian elections and contributes to "the democratic deficit" on both sides of the country.
Canada and Quebec should stay and prosper together but I'm definitely not about to pay to keep them in confederation.
If Quebec wants to leave, I'm sure the new country of North Louisiana would do just fine.

[Patrick_Ross]

Actually, Quebec would fall flat on its face without the rest of the country. For one thing, its trade defecit would be devestating. Not only would Quebec be unable to conjure the revenue necessary to build a federal infrastructure, but this would also set back the development of their hydroelectric resources back by at least 20 years.
Furthermore, with no way to keep those who oppose separatism within the new "country", these regions would be able to seccede by default, and secede largely unopposed. All of this comes together to equal the new country unravelling in no time flat.
Don't feel bad, though, Quebecers: while Alberta possesses the necessary wealth to actually get on its feet as an independent country, it's largely a pipe dream: after all, the bottom will eventually drop out of the oil & gas market, and if current trends continue, it's unlikely Alberta will have diversified its economy enough to survive.
Regardless, the time has come for political segregation in Canada to end, and the protectionists in Ontario and Quebec must eventually concede that it is long past time for a change.

[BartSimpson]

Avro Avro:

Oh well, whats another 1.4 billion anyways. Just more debt being handed over to America's children. I am sure the looney money hugging right will find some excuse for this as well......wait for it.

The debt is irrelevant. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created this bizarre economic model where money is based on faith and has no tangible value of its own such as silver or gold. The US dollar is worth what people believe it is worth and the "debt" is a fiction.

The Federal Reserve, a private corporation, gins up money out of thin air and lends it to the government and then when the government pays the debt back out of 'real' money the funds somehow become real.

It's just a shell game.

If a dollar is just a pipe-dream then seven trillion pipe dreams are just as valuable as one of them is.

At some point the whole Ponzi scheme of the international bankers will crash since they cannot keep up this endless cycle of farting money out their butts and then making all of us bow to them.

[BartSimpson]

Avro Avro:

Told ya.

I guess that we are agreeing on something. Cool.

[Scape]

"The U.S. economy is a confidence trick based on everybody else's perception that the United States is centrally important for the world's security and that its economy is centrally important for the world economy. --Gwynne Dyer
Future Tense: The Coming World Order