Poilievre says he will make the case for unity to Albertans, but not ‘asymmetric federalism’
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-pierre-poilievre-unity-to-alberta-separatism-conservative-leader/
Poilievre says he will make the case for unity to Albertans, but not ‘asymmetric federalism’
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-pierre-poilievre-unity-to-alberta-separatism-conservative-leader/
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Asymmetric federalism usually refers to a scenario like Spain when certain regions have legally entrenched special powers.
In Canada, there is absolutely nothing stopping any province from exerting their authority to its upper limits like Quebec does. If Canada is asymmetric its because the other provinces haven’t wanted to go that far up to now
We should make it clear that Alberta has to keep Pollievre if they separate. Ontario did the right thing by voting him out, AB gave him the second chance
It’s a yes or no question, a really stupid yes or no question, but if the separatists get a result they can spin as Albertans indicating they want to leave thats pretty much the ball game. Poilievre needs to drop this mush mouthed nonsense, if he cant say vote no or your screwed he should stay in Ottawa.
There it is.
Didn’t even take him 24 hours to undercut his own statement of national unity.
This man wants to lead Canada, but he won’t even stand up to people who literally want to break it.
“Asymmetric federalism”.
Let’s see: Alberta’s population represents about 12% of Canada’s total population and yet, the province complains that Ontario and Quebec always gets most the benefits…when these two provinces represent 61% of Canada’s total population.
What’s really asymmetric is the amount of visibility small fringe groups get when they are not even representative of the majority in their own province.