Thoughts - 22/09/2012

• Quebec students' tuition fees will necessarily increase if the federal government transfers less money to Quebec's education budget.
• Unfortunately, while some in the rest of Canada may want Quebec to give up its federal transfers as well as its inordinate share of seats in parliament, if it decides to leave the Canadian nation, the original reason for those transfers was that Canada needed Quebec's economic partnership. Quebec has shown signs of being willing to trade with other countries and of participating in the world market; as well, it already supplies electricity to some states in the northeast USA. This is why the Parti Quebecois can run on a sovereignty-in-association platform and not be too heavily criticized by the federal government.