Calexit

Quote: boymimbo

Never is going to happen.

Could have said the same thing about the Baltic Republics in 1980.

Quote: Nareed

Right wing paranoid fantasies are every bit as weird as other conspiracy theories. I tend to ignore them,

Good.


>>>>>>>>>Or the flip side: FDR arranged the attack on Pearl Harbor.
he didn't arrange it though but for his being crippled he surely turned cartwheels.
He did not want some minor gunboat incident, he wanted a first move by the Japs, Pearl Harbor was a hardship post due to lack of shore facilities, he relieved of command the admiral who protested putting the fleet in Hawaii rather than San Diego, he kept the oldest admiral in command at Pearl and kept the diplomatic decrypts away from those who most needed them. World Report had a Dec seventh issue entitled Peace in the Pacific but world shipping companies already knew and US consular offices already knew the Japanese merchant fleet was marching across the Pacific to the safety of the home waters.

Trudeau victory prompts ‘Wexit’ talk in Canada’s West

Quebec in the east, oil regions in the west. Not unlike the USA, Canada seems to be a couple ultra-liberal areas out of step with the rest of the nation.

In centuries past, this kind of thing would simply cause a civil war or else that part of the country would break off. Since the late 1800s and far more since the end of WWI, this does not happen much, the breakup of the USSR excepted. Wexit and Calexit are not the only 2 places. It really might be time for the UN to recognize processes for this to happen peaceful before it comes to violence.

Quote: AZDuffman

Trudeau victory prompts ‘Wexit’ talk in Canada’s West

Quebec in the east, oil regions in the west. Not unlike the USA, Canada seems to be a couple ultra-liberal areas out of step with the rest of the nation.

In centuries past, this kind of thing would simply cause a civil war or else that part of the country would break off. Since the late 1800s and far more since the end of WWI, this does not happen much, the breakup of the USSR excepted. Wexit and Calexit are not the only 2 places. It really might be time for the UN to recognize processes for this to happen peaceful before it comes to violence.

Never going to happen there or here. People love to talk about it. But, this is what caused the Civil War in the past.

Under the lefties criteria I should have a Conservative government in Canada since they won the popular vote but ended up with fewer seats. Oh the travesty of it, all maybe we can impeach Trudeau.

Quote: Gandler

Never going to happen there or here. People love to talk about it. But, this is what caused the Civil War in the past.

I would not be so quick to dismiss it. Look at how fast the USSR fell apart, as well as Yugoslavia. The former with little violence, the later with much. Eventually old borders make no sense and new ones should come about.

Quote: Gandler

Never going to happen there or here. People love to talk about it. But, this is what caused the Civil War in the past.

Canada never had the unifying experience of the Revolutionary War. Canada is much more a business arrangement than the USA and provinces have more power than states. A breakup of Canada would be very civil without any bloodshed.

Western Canada has only been part of the nation for less than 150 years
Manitoba established as a province of Canada in 1870.
British Columbia agreed to join Canadian confederation in 1871.
Saskatchewan: Established as province in 1905.
Alberta: In 1905, the same year as Saskatchewan, Alberta also was established as province.

The states that entered USA during the same time period were:
Colorado 1876
North Dakota 1889
South Dakota 1889
Washington 1889
Montana 1889
Wyoming 1890
Idaho 1890
Utah 1896
...
Oklahoma 1907
Arizona 1912
New Mexico 1912
Alaska 1959
Hawaii 1959