The United Party of Canada (no French translation, please) would have as its central core the unification of Canada into a one-language, one nation, one law, equal rights and responsibilities country. From the massive reduction in internal divisions would come the strength to exert ourselves effectively both economically and militarily over the huge landscape we now claim control over. Canada will then become the power that has always had the potential to be.
As Lenin said: "What is to be done?"
First, Quebec must be given a homeland, with borders such that the vast majority of French-speakers would lie within within the new homeland.
Those French speakers outside the new borders (including those in New Brunswick) would have the option of relocating to the new, smaller state of Quebec, or becoming fluent in English within 1 year, at their own expense, and remaining in Canada.
Canadian citizenship would be revoked for all those living in Quebec after their independence.
The new state of Quebec would start off with no foreign debt. In return for this, all federal assets and banking instruments would be removed to Canada, and all Bank head offices.
Secondly, all individual native indians in Canada would be given the option of accepting the fair market value of the reserve land currently inhabited (not claimed) and paid out to each native person OR relocating to the Queen Charlotte Islands, which would be the new home for all native peoples, and would be a new state.
In the first case, each individual would remain as a Canadian citizen, and would be free to take his or her money to purchase the land currently on, or start a business, move anywhere, do anything with the money.
With one stroke, natives either receive money to leave apartheid forever, to move wherever their money and individual potentials will take them, OR become part of a new state, with unlimited potential to make that country what they want of it, with oil and gas revenues, with great opportunities for making new lives in fishing, logging, forestry, and tourism.
The divisions of Quebec and native aspirations would be gone, and a united Canada would have strong friends in new countries.
Quebec is already fairly far along the road to independence. God willing, I will see it go in my lifetime. Like a piece of grit in one's eye, it will give great relief when it goes, and it must go, and soon.
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