Das Referendum in Churchill Falls wird den Deal aus der politischen Arena drängen, sagt Wakeham
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/churchill-falls-referendum-will-take-deal-out-of-political-arena-wakeham-says-9.6939681
Das Referendum in Churchill Falls wird den Deal aus der politischen Arena drängen, sagt Wakeham
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/churchill-falls-referendum-will-take-deal-out-of-political-arena-wakeham-says-9.6939681
7 Kommentare
In my book, putting an issue like the Churchill Falls contract to a vote is not taking it out of the political arena. Do I miss something here?
This is dumb. This is way too steeped in emotion and decades of history and perceptions of Quebec to yield anything useful. Not to mention the average person has no basis of expertise to wade in on this.
Great. A referendum on how much a whole province hates us. Nevermind how many Supreme Court have confirmed the original deal, they’ve been raised on the narrative that Quebecers have screwed them over and this is their chance to “stick it up” to them.
No no… it takes it out of the legislature and allows plausible deniability when pulling out of the deal screws Newfs and the PCs can shrug and say „but the people want this“. Think Brexit but more boring.
They got an amazing deal and now the new gov wants to waste time with a referendum. People arent smart enough to vote on this
Outside looking in, the deal looked pretty good.
Leaving it to the populace to make an emotional decision probably isn’t wise.
Wakeham is being really dumb with his handling of this. The political reality is the next Quebec election is just under a year away, the CAQ look dead in the water, and the PQ (leading in every poll) have indicated they will rip up the deal because they think they gave away too much to NL. NL is beyond screwed if they don’t get the deal locked in and finalized before the next QC election, and Wakeham is about to go down as the dumbest premier in NL history if he ends up blowing up the deal.
The „out of the political arena“ argument is incredibly stupid and disingenuous. We have elections for a reason, and we just had an election, and they could have put the entire thing to bed by running for or against the deal as part of their platform (which the Liberals clearly did) and the voters would have decided. The PCs are the ones triangulating and putting the future of the province at risk for political gain here.