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on Friday September 08 2017, @06:25PM
from the then-the-Basques,-and-then-...? dept.
from the then-the-Basques,-and-then-...? dept.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41191327
Spanish PM Mariano Rajoy says he will ask the courts to revoke a law passed by the Catalan regional government to hold a referendum on independence. He described the vote, planned for 1 October, as illegal.
Earlier, state prosecutors said they would bring criminal charges against Catalan leaders for their endorsement of the referendum.
The pro-independence majority in Catalonia's parliament passed the referendum law on Wednesday. Spain's wealthy north-eastern region already has autonomous powers but the regional government says it has popular support for full secession.
See also:
- Will Catalonia try to secede from Spain this year? [Jan 2017]
- Catalan independence: Plan for quick split from Spain after vote [Jul 2017]
- Catalonia's push for independence from Spain [Nov 2015]
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(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Saturday September 09 2017, @03:02PM
Maybe Newfoundland could become an independent country again, as they were before the Act of Dominion in 1949. Perhaps the rest of the Maritimes (New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia) would join them.
Maybe, but what if they don't want to? Small regions with few resources are usually better off as part of a larger collective, rather than trying to be independent. Maintaining your own national government and military is hard and expensive, and having to pay customs and duties for everything you import gets expensive; that's why small regions tend to band together into federations and unions.
the Anglophones in the rest of Canada would stop having to learn French.
They could just change the law in the other provinces to fix this if they really wanted.
Quebec seems like it would continue to do about as well as an independent country as they do as a Canadian province.
Perhaps, but I don't think the same can be said of the Maritime provinces.