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This referendum would also have required approval by 60% of those voting. The second referendum was held on May 12, 2009, in conjunction with the provincial election. The results were a "supermajority" of 60.92% voting for retaining the current "first past the post" electoral system and 39.8% voting for the proposed Single Transferable Vote.
The British Columbia Recall and Initiative Referendum was a referendum held in British Columbia on October 17, 1991. It was concurrent with that year's general election. The referendum posed two questions. They were on whether elected officials should be able to be recalled and whether voters should be given a citizen's initiative. Both ...
Before the 1995 Quebec sovereignty referendum, Mohawk leaders asserted a sovereign right to secede from Quebec if Quebec were to secede from Canada. [9] In the CBC Television documentary Breaking Point , premier of Quebec Jacques Parizeau said that if the referendum had succeeded, he would have allowed the Mohawk communities to secede from ...
The goal of Quebec's sovereignist movement is to make Quebec an independent state. In practice, the terms independentist, sovereignist, and separatist are used to describe people adhering to this movement, although the latter term is perceived as pejorative by those concerned as it de-emphasizes that the sovereignty project aims to achieve political independence without severing economic ...
"The root of our trouble is centred in the relationship between the two countries, between Newfoundland as a country and Canada" according to James Halley, a former lawyer involved in negotiating a deal to get Newfoundland into Canada in 1949. According to a July 2003 report, secessionism was on the rise. [3]
Written into the 1907 state Constitution and largely modeled after Oregon’s initiative and referendum law, Oklahoma's initiative and referendum clause has sparked more than 800 initiative ...
The Referendum Papers: Essays on Secession and National Unity, (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999). Michel Seymour, "Letter to Canadians: Section 2.2 Partitionism in Question [permanent dead link ]", study for IPSO, Montreal, May 20, 1998 [12 arguments against the partition of Quebec] Robert Andrew Young (1998).
Some have shrugged off Trump’s suggestion Canada should “become the 51st state” as an old joke or mere posturing, while others dismiss it as a bad political idea, given Canada’s blue leanings.