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#1 G-Man

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 06:34 AM

So what do people think of this initiative. It is obviously very new because Google cannot find their webpage yet...

The election once again showed that politically we are somewhat divided from the rest of the province but apart from that the shared culture and history makes me think that BC is a fairly cohesive political unit.

I would be more inclined to seek independence for the whole province than to begin separating us internally.

If anyone can find the website I would be interested.

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#2 D.L.

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 06:50 AM

What I wonder -

What would be the effect on the island if we didn't share in the resource revenue derived from the rest of the province?

Does the Canadian constitution allow for additional provinces?

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 06:52 AM

I'd rather BC and Alberta become a separate country. We'd do well.
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#4 Mike K.

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 06:57 AM

It would be a massive increase in logging, mining and other resource industries. Most on the Island would not want this to happen but it would be inevitable.

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 07:11 AM

I'd rather BC and Alberta become a separate country. We'd do well.


Economically we would but I think that the history and culture of the two entities is too different.

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#6 G-Man

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 07:13 AM

What I wonder -

What would be the effect on the island if we didn't share in the resource revenue derived from the rest of the province?

Does the Canadian constitution allow for additional provinces?


It does so long as the other provinces agreed to it. NWT is in the beginnings of talks and the federal Conservatives have always voiced their support for the territories to move to becoming provinces.

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#7 jonny

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 08:00 AM

Vancouver Island would be a small, isolated, have not province with an even smaller voice at the national table. No thanks.

Victoria alone would be decimated by the loss of the BC public service.

Saskatchewan, AB, BC, NWT and Yukon becoming a separate country though...that would interest me! That would be a little resource based juggernaut!

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 11:50 AM

Saskatchewan, AB, BC, NWT and Yukon becoming a separate country though...that would interest me! That would be a little resource based juggernaut!


I wonder what the cost would be to those taxpayers to remediate all of the old, polluted mine sites in those provinces?

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#9 Mike K.

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 11:53 AM

I love this quote:

"Why not let Islanders decide their own future?" they ask.


Yes, a future of joblessness, high taxes and NIMBY-ism. For the rich retirees who live on the Island we might as well become a separate province, but for the rest of us there would be little if any benefit.

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 12:16 PM

I wonder what the cost would be to those taxpayers to remediate all of the old, polluted mine sites in those provinces?


My guess is less than the economic benefit those mines enabled.

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 02:27 PM

Please don't even put ideas into their heads! The champagne socialists would be drooling at the thought of finally being in power....I would imagine a mass exodus of private sector jobs and a mass influx of environmentalists and nanny state types. They could ban cars, cruise ships and gas lawnmowers and perhaps even Pamela Madoff may get to see her precious sooke hills forever!

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 02:51 PM

It would be the most densely populated province. That would look good on a bumper sticker.

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 03:04 PM

And we thought the price of a ferry ticket was too high now...

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#14 D.L.

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Posted 21 June 2013 - 05:14 PM

...a mass exodus of private sector jobs... They could ban cars, cruise ships and gas lawnmowers...



then we could concentrate on all the aspects of life that those distract us from

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#15 Nanaimoite

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Posted 19 August 2013 - 06:46 PM

Bring it on, maybe we can concentrate on building our much needed infrastructure here on the Island, instead of us building up Vancouver's for the last decade.

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Posted 19 August 2013 - 07:27 PM

Pass thank you kindly. For starters Victoria would become a shell of itself I think, and we would be isolated and in some respects less relevant within the Canadian confederation than PEI simply due to our geography. If we were really to do this I'd be thinking more along the lines of Cascadia. Now that would be a diverse economic powerhouse. Of course Washington (DC) would never stand idly by and let it happen but then again it probably has the same likelihood of happening any time soon as a separate VI within Canada....

#17 jonny

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Posted 20 August 2013 - 07:34 AM

Yeah, I don't see what Vancouver Island would stand to gain from becoming its own province. We would lose thousands of provincial government jobs and be one of the smallest and most isolated provinces in the confederation.

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Posted 20 August 2013 - 07:44 AM

This is one of the worst ideas of all time. Still we would not the smallest province by a long shot. We would be 8th out 14 in population and would be bigger than three current provinces. Still a lot of people would have to move away. Particularly from Victoria so that would change for the worse.

I am Cascadian though. I would take that option today if I could.

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#19 jonny

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Posted 20 August 2013 - 08:04 AM

I am Cascadian though. I would take that option today if I could.


I'm not so sure. I have recently spent quite a bit of time in Portland, Seattle and other areas of Washington and most of the locals talk about BC like it's some far off mystical land they don't quite understand.

#20 Mike K.

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Posted 20 August 2013 - 09:07 AM

British Columbia in Canadonia can be a very unfamiliar place for some Cascadians. Allow me to transcribe an exchange I once had:

"Beautiful British what? How'd you get here?"
"On a ferry."
"No. Way. A trip of a lifetime, hey? Welcome to America."

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