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5) Also do you think it is fair that you have twice the amount of seats in parliament compared to Alberta/BC yet the populations are the same.

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Is that true? Holy [censored]!

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Read this thread carefully. Understand why Canadians get so pissed off when Quebecers act like they're so mistreated.

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Zurvan,

I have a close friend from Vancouver. In addition to turning me into a Canucks fan [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] he has talked at fair length about this.

He tends to place blame on the anglophones though. He feels that they have some weird guilt complex. For example, when Conan O'brien was in Toronto and made some anti-french joke about people in Quebec (I'm guessing your memory of it is better than mine), the main people that were upset were people outside Quebec just trying to be sensitive overzealously.

Either way, that overrepresentation is pretty [censored] up.

Another issue I have is that it's quite clear that people in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, BC, Western Alberta maybe I don't know anyone from there) have more in common culturally than people from Oregon and South Carolina or even Oregon and Pennsylvania (as well as say BC and, say, Nova Scotia). However, nobody actually takes Cascadia claims seriously (most Americans haven't heard of the concept, even Pacific NW people, nobody in Canada seems to take it seriously).

In basically every country, there are major areas of cultural difference relative to the rest of the country. Barring a unique history, such as formerly being a distinct country that was say illegally taken over by the main country, I don't think this is close to reason enough to separate. Economic reasons may even not make it work in those cases.