Our late-fall reformer Conrad Black offers a new
constitutional formula for Clearing the Quebec Air.
Having spent millions of his own money on commercial lawyers, he’s found a way
to re-employ teams of constitutional lawyers across Canada.
“What is needed now is an omnibus
clearing of the air. Any province that votes by 60% or more to secede can do
so, provided that any federal voting constituency that votes by 60% or more not
to secede will remain in Canada, and referenda cannot be more frequent than
every 10 years. Any seceding province will assume half the percentage of the
Canadian federal debt that the seceding province has as a population of
Canada’s (pre-secession) population. If necessary, joint censuses will
establish these figures. Any federal government assets in the seceding province
will be paid for, if the seceding province wants them, over 10 years, at a
price agreed by joint commissions, with a casting vote, if necessary, from the
International Court of Arbitration. If the province doesn’t want those federal
assets, the federal government may sell or keep them as it wishes.”
So, off you go, everybody: this marriage contract can be
kept inside your wallets for easy reference; it leaches out all the love, and it makes
divorce impossible.
What would have happened if King George III had sent his rebellious
North American subjects off to collect super-majorities in every county in his 13 colonies?
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