"This Cranks standard political menue will be:"
That only works if the secessionists can pre-determine that their referendum will not succeed, but be close enought that the threat is credible in the future.
There is no way to guarantee, or engineer, such a result.
There's a very real possibility that they will win their country the next time, and that that's what most of them intending to accomplish.
The rest of the country would become more decentralized and conservative by default, when it happens.
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Hey, tell me about it.
I am a Canadian ex pat.
Once had a Quebecois friend ask me if I supported Quebec Independence.
I said, " You bet, Quebec should have left yesterday".
Never has a modern Western nation of so many been held back politically , economically and socially, by so few.
This dynamic has retarded a country that could be much greater and much more significant than it is today in the world. It never will be until the Frenchies are completely integrated ( absorbed) with more political power going to the Western provinces. The French CAnadians have called the shots for the nation as a whole for far too long.