Referendum update

One thing I think we should mention about the results here, the polling on this referendum has proven accurate.

The results are actually softer than some expected.

Personally, I even expected the separatists to get into the 30s here.

The news on American involvement, meetings, discussions, and other things with the separatist movement all came out in the days before the vote, and one has to wonder if that has softened support.

In the room itself, before the results were coming in, there were positive feelings.

Of course, these are supporters.

They feel like they've got this in the bag.

But as the results came in, one thing that really surprised me was the defiance that I was seeing.

I mean, if you're a student and you get 25% on a test, no one thinks that's good.

Yeah, I saw the same sort of reaction on a separatist live stream that I watched for several hours last night.

To boil it down, it was like, we've sent a message, and the longer-term project was spelled out, and I think that this has been lost in a lot of the discussion.

They talked a lot about Quebec.

In the 1980s, Quebec held a referendum where they gathered 30-40% support for separating from Canada.

As we know, in 1995, Quebec held a second referendum where they almost gathered 50% support, leading to things like the Clarity Act, leading to us spelling out how to separate from Canada.

So, there is a discussion in conservative circles about, this is just step one.

Yeah, I think we hear over and over, like, this is not the end.

Like our last episode title, this is the beginning.

So that is where we are at.