{"id":4682,"date":"2013-01-29T09:49:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T14:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4682"},"modified":"2013-01-29T10:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T15:11:40","slug":"50-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=4682","title":{"rendered":"50% + 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After dancing around the issue for several years, it appears the NDP finally has a clear position on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ndp-tinkers-with-quebec-secession-law-to-escape-blocs-trap\/article7935340\/\">Clarity Act<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Monday, the NDP introduced legislation to allow Quebec to secede with a simple majority of 50 per cent plus one. The party also wants to impose a tougher question in the event of a third referendum in the province, such as: \u201cShould Quebec separate from Canada and become a sovereign country?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The NDP bill aims to replace the 2000 Clarity Act, which was passed by the previous Liberal government after a tight referendum on Quebec sovereignty five years earlier. While it does not include an exact threshold, the Clarity Act calls for a \u201cclear majority\u201d and sends a signal that Ottawa would require a convincing victory by sovereigntists to launch negotiations on Quebec secession.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So there you have it. The NDP supports a clear question but not a clear majority. Which is certainly their prerogative, even if it&#8217;s one I disagree with.<\/p>\n<p>Also disagreeing is one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/politics\/ndp-tinkers-with-quebec-secession-law-to-escape-blocs-trap\/article7935340\/\">Justin Trudeau<\/a> (and I&#8217;d imagine most other leadership candidates), so you can expect this to be a key line of division between the Liberals and NDP in the next election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After dancing around the issue for several years, it appears the NDP finally has a clear position on the Clarity Act: On Monday, the NDP introduced legislation to allow Quebec to secede with a simple majority of 50 per cent plus one. The party also wants to impose a tougher question in the event of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[1331,1024,979],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4682"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4685,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4682\/revisions\/4685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}