Quebecer können kanadische Pässe in einem separaten Quebec aufbewahren, sagt PQ

Alberta and Quebec do realize that you don’t get to separate from a country, and maintain all the benefits of said country…right? You take the good, you take the bad, and then you’ll find…you finally have…the fallout from separation.

I also assume he says they can continue using the Canadian dollar, collect OAS, EI, and transfer payments from Ottawa?

Edit: removed CPP from list

As an Acadian living in Quebec…. I’ll get up and leave montreal. I’m Canadian, no matter what fever dream PsPsppPppsS says. Piece of shit.

Of course, they’ll make excellent keepsakes, like my collection of French francs. None of us will be using them as actual documents anymore however, since the country will cease to exist.

Not their decision to make. No passports, no currency, no foreign trade deals, no foreign consulates, no military and Canada keeps all crown and indigenous land. That’s what a province that separates gets. They always sound like bratty teenagers that demand independence but still want to borrow the car on Saturday night.

Canadians are so dramatic.

First of all, we ain’t there yet.

The PQ has a high probability of being elected, but sovereignty itself still sits at 35% popularity.

Before there’s a referendum, even a winning referendum, there’s time.

On the very hypothetical scenario where Quebec would win its independence, why yes, of course, citizens could keep their passports.

The Canadian government changes its rules on citizenship last fall. To make it easier for foreign born citizens to keep their citizenship. You don’t even have to live in Canada anymore to be a Canadian citizenship. That’s the rule to House of Commons and the Senate ratified. Once you gain Canadian citizenship by living in the country for 3 years, paying taxes here for 3 years and passing a simple citizenship test, all of your descendants until the end of the world as we know it will gain Canadian citizenship, or inherit the citizenship of its successor state(s).

That’s what Canadians wanted. If I am a somewhat wealthy individual from Lebanon, I could come here with my family, work hard for 3 years setting up a business, eventually get a citizenship for everyone after 3 this time, and whenever Israel wants to annex my country, my great grand children will be rescued by the Canadian Armed Forces.

That’s the reality of it, that’s what we wanted as Canadians, and no one seemed bothered by this. That’s what defines us as Canadians.

So, yeah, if Quebec gets independent, individuals will eventually get a choice: keep their Canadian passport, adopt a Quebec passport only, keep both.

And unless the Parliament of Canada changes the rules for everyone in the world, there’s not a damn thing it can do about Quebec, or Alberta, or whatever breakout province appears in the next 100 years. The Charter of Rights and Liberties so dear to Canadians, where our Supreme Court Judges have taken a very lax interpretation will prevent any changes to that.

And there have been precedents in Canada, and elsewhere in the Commonwealth, where citizens of ill repute could not be stripped of the nationality. So, for a simple citizen who now finds himself living in a former territory of Canada? It’d be treated exactly the same as a British citizen who found himself living in a breakaway territory from Britain. They weren’t forced to abandon their British citizenship against their will, it just came naturally.

Barely no Canadian have dual British-Canadian citizenship now.

Really a non issue designed to generate outrage.

> An independent Quebec would allow its citizens to keep both a Canadian and Quebec passport, Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon said

Allowed to keep the passport and can keep the passport is very different. 

Canada allows citizens to keep citizenship even if they have citizenship in another country. It’s called dual citizenship. He is saying the same thing. Québec would allow dual citizenship. 

He is not saying Quebecers get to keep their Canadian passports. That’s up to Canada. 

Why did the Gazette change „allowed“ to „can“? Because it’s again just typical rage bait from The Gazette. You all fall for it every time so clearly it works. 

This reminds me of what the PQ was saying around the time of a recent election. Specifically that Quebec could continue to use Canadian currency if they separate. Lol. They will lie to get their desired result, but what they get as the outcome of a real negotiation with the federal government is what they get, and there’s no guarantees of anything.