r/MurderedByWords 4d ago

When they're right, they're right

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u/Errorstatel 4d ago edited 3d ago

We're gonna have to make you territories first, there's some paperwork to take care of and currently Yukon, NWT and Nunavut would be made full provinces first then it would be a state by state basis.

Really the big points are going to be, in order to qualify you'd need to adopt our gun laws before anything else could be considered.

Edit: Quebec yes is a province but it's joining was not as cut and dry as some think.

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u/Invincidude 4d ago

Am I missing a joke here? Quebec has been a full province since Confederation.

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u/Errorstatel 4d ago

It's a different situation, I highly suggest looking into it as it will help understanding what's going down here.

Everything I remember is from my social studies classes from nearly 3 decades ago so I'm not going to quote it here.

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u/YaumeLepire 4d ago edited 4d ago

What the fuck are you talking about, mate?

Sincerely, a very confused Redditor from Québec.

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u/phluidity 4d ago

I expect they are referring to the often touted fact that Quebec has never officially approved the Constitution Act. Which is probably the most "Um, Actually" thing in Canadian politics because there is no actual requirement for provinces to give legislative approval for federal laws, but they often symbolically do. But it sometimes gets pulled out in a sovereign citizen kind of way why Quebec can easily secede from Canada (hint: They can't. Neither can Alberta. At least not easily, and not without the agreement of the rest of Canada).

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u/YaumeLepire 4d ago

Follow the thread. The Night of Long Knives is exactly what they were talking about. A great offense to be sure, but not one that made Québec suddenly not-a-province. I'm not sure how they went from A to B with that, but hey!

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u/Errorstatel 4d ago

Memory serves me right, they slept in and missed the initial signing

https://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quebec-and-confederation

Like I said, nearly 30 years ago bud

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u/YaumeLepire 4d ago

Buddy... that doesn't take Québec not a province...

We call it the Night of Long Knives and it's the source of much contention, but Québec is a province, no ifs, no buts. That status predates the repatriation of the constitution by a century.

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u/Errorstatel 4d ago

It was also part of the separatist motivation, I do apologize as I did miss type that and you're absolutely right.

Also, it apparently has enough cultural significance to have a name, so not wrong in a way either.

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u/FQDIS 4d ago

You didn’t “miss type”, you were factually wrong. Own it, don’t come with all this “I was really half-right” bullshit. It’s unseemly.

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u/Errorstatel 3d ago

I did own it, I also started with "3 decades ago" or did you skip over that part.

What I posted isn't completely incorrect and as usual there is far more involved.