Is there a process for secession in Canada? Trying to think of an example where violence wasn't necessary for a nation to break away from another nation.
Canadians are not pacifists.
there has been some very bad bloodshed in Canada over Quebec wanting to leave and maybe some peope forgot, but it was actually Trudeau's father, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who dealt with it and called the army out and and issued a curfew during the events of what is called 'the October Crisis' of 1970
this was hardly a small event so it does not go to say Canadians are all about peace and thank you.
read the following for the facts on those events:
(and who is to say that nothing like this would ever happen again. the world is in upheavel around the globe and Canadians are not really the pacifists some would like to paint them as. we have an unqualified mommy's boy as the current leader and, as has been pointed out, if we had a fairer political system as has the US, Trudeau would be at home crying on his wife's shoulder, instead of trying to figure out how to hold onto power in order to help out the globalists that he is a part of.
here is the article from wiki, but if you search, there are many many articles. Quebec already had two attempts at leaving Canada put to the vote and neither suceeded. I doubt things would have gone smoothly since the St Lawrence seaway does not belong to Quebec, but belongs to the Federal Gov and they were not going to hand that over to Quebec
U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC)
The Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation is a wholly owned government corporation created by statute May 13, 1954, to construct, operate and maintain that part of the St. Lawrence Seaway between the Port of Montreal and Lake Erie, within the territorial limits of the United States. Trade development functions aim to enhance Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway System utilization without respect to territorial or geographic limits.
The mission of the Corporation is to serve the U.S. intermodal and international transportation system by improving the operation and maintenance of a safe, reliable, environmentally responsible deep-draft waterway, in cooperation with its Canadian counterpart. The SLSDC also encourages the development of trade through the Great Lakes Seaway System, which contributes to the comprehensive economic and environmental development of the entire Great Lakes region.
ok, sorry but things are not really simple as has been portrayed, so here again is the info
(my dad was called in during the Oct crisis so I am not ignorant about it and know a few things I am not repeating that the general public does not know. the details of the kidnapping of Mr Laporte were not published even though he was eventually killed.)
The
October Crisis (
French:
La crise d'octobre) occurred in October 1970 in the province of
Quebec in
Canada, mainly in the
Montreal metropolitan area. Members of the
Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)
kidnapped the provincial Deputy Premier
Pierre Laporte and British diplomat
James Cross. In response, Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau invoked the only peacetime use of the
War Measures Act. The kidnappers murdered Laporte and negotiations led to Cross's release and the kidnappers' exile to Cuba.
The Premier of Quebec
Robert Bourassa and the Mayor of Montreal
Jean Drapeau supported Trudeau's invocation of the War Measures Act, which limited civil liberties. The police were enabled with far-reaching powers, and they arrested and detained, without bail, 497 individuals, all but 62 of whom were later released without charges. The Government of Quebec also requested
military aid to the civil power, and Canadian Forces deployed throughout Quebec; they acted in a support role to the civil authorities of Quebec.
[1]:86–91
At the time, opinion polls throughout Canada, including in Quebec, showed widespread support for the use of the War Measures Act.
[2] The response, however, was criticized at the time by prominent politicians such as
René Lévesque and
Tommy Douglas.
[3]
The events of October 1970 galvanized opposition to the use of violence in efforts to gain Quebec sovereignty and accelerated the movement towards electoral means of attaining greater autonomy and independence,
[4]:256 including support for the sovereigntist
Parti Québécois, which formed the provincial government in 1976.
From 1963 to 1970 the
Quebec nationalist group
Front de libération du Québec detonated over 950 bombs.
[5] While mailboxes, particularly in the affluent and predominantly Anglophone city of
Westmount, were common targets, the largest single bombing was of the
Montreal Stock Exchange on February 13, 1969, which caused extensive damage and injured 27 people. Other targets included
Montreal City Hall,
Royal Canadian Mounted Police, armed forces recruiting offices, railway tracks, and army installations. FLQ members, in a strategic move, had stolen several tons of
dynamite from military and industrial sites, and, financed by
bank robberies, they threatened through their official communication organ, known as
La Cognée, that more attacks were to come.
By 1970, 23 members of the FLQ were in prison, including four convicted of
murder. On February 26, 1970, two men in a panel truck, including
Jacques Lanctôt, were arrested in
Montreal when they were discovered with a
sawed-off shotgun and a communiqué announcing the kidnapping of the
Israeli consul. In June, police raided a home in the small community of
Prévost, north of Montreal in the
Laurentian Mountains, and found firearms, ammunition, 300 pounds (140 kg) of dynamite,
detonators, and the draft of a
ransom note to be used in the kidnapping of the
United States consul.
[6]
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