| split - 08.28.08 |
| submitter: | robert kershaw |
| location: | Calgary, Alberta Canada |
| emblematic of Canada's English-French legacy |
| category: | Seen Worse |
| comments: | 3 |
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| wim commented on 08.28.08 | | thank you very much robert, I have spent years in explaining the difference between "autonome" and "souverein" in french to people speaking english, not that easy, as it is very difficult to explain "laicité" seen from a belgian point of view to a french point of view. It is hard to negociate on terms when the definitions can have another meaning, due to the background from those that listen, or those that can make decisions, if that background is not the same. It is aboout more than semantics, and people are very itchy about it. |
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| robert k commented on 08.28.08 | | I should have tilted it almost split. In 1995 the Quebec referendum asked voters in the Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should secede from Canada and become an independent state, through the question "Do you agree that Québec 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 Québec and of the agreement signed on June 12, 1995?".
The 1995 referendum differed from the first referendum on Quebec's sovereignty in that the 1980 question proposed to negotiate "sovereignty-association" with the Canadian government, while the 1995 question proposed "sovereignty", along with an optional partnership offer to the rest of Canada.
The referendum took place in Quebec on October 30, 1995, and the motion to decide whether Quebec should secede from Canada was defeated by an razor-thin margin: 50.58% "No" to 49.42% "Yes". |
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| wim commented on 08.28.08 | | this needs a bit of explanation, svp |
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