I'll remind you that every 50 years or so, everybody, including many Québécois, claims the French Canadians as a whole will be gone within the next 50 years.
Hasn't yet happened, and most certainly won't during our lifetimes!
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That energy belongs to the people of Canada and Quebec has no right to determine its end use. Selfish Quebec steals the resource from NFLD and then sells it at a deep discount to the US when it should be used to subsidise the cost of electricity for all Canadians.
NFLD signed the contract. A contract is a contract is a contract.
As for subsidizing for Canadians instead of selling to Americans : that is a fair point, and yes it would indeed probably simply be fair for Canada to take a hold of Quebec's electricity more. But that would be a kind of political suicide, so no party would be ready to do that unless they *really* wanted the good of Canada as a whole, not that of their party. And then again, even such a party would then give separatists a massive argument.
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Can't they just eat poutine?
Our health system has enough of a strain already.
Anyway, back on subject
1) The ADQ has a genuine talent at saying anything and not making sense. Just sayin'.
2) Good news is that the natality level is actually increasing. I think we're no longer last in Canada actually, but I'd need to check. Government intervention in the domain of family is no stranger to that : at the least, new programs that favored conciliation between work and family coincidated with a rise in natality in the recent years.
Throug history, unlike what Grainfed says, Quebec actually had a culture of very high natality - I'm no specialist, but how little it took for the natality rate to increase about 0.15 (to 1.6~ children per woman) in the last few years leads me to belief the drop is just an "accident" and that the natural tendency will remain at least a moderate natality level in Quebec in general (compared to the rest of Canada I mean).
Of course if anyone got a study or anything that can confirm or deny this, I'd be happy to oblige.