If Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island qualify as provinces, why not Vancouver Island?
In area, we're five times bigger than P.E.I. and four times more populous. Prince Edward Island is the 23rd largest island in Canada. That's it, a paltry 23rd.
Newfoundland is bigger than Vancouver Island, at least when you tack on Labrador, the 4th largest island in Canada. But (you knew there was a "but" didn't you?) Vancouver Island's population of 638,000 is substantially greater than Newfoundland and Labrador's meagre 485,000.
In fact, VanIslanders also outnumber the populations of Nunavit, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories plus Prince Edward Island combined and we're catching up on New Brunswick. BC's overall growth rate is more than double New Brunswick's.
So why in hell should Vancouver Island not be recognized as a Canadian province in its own right? It's our due.
Okay, I getcha, but look at it this way..we single-handedly (well, practically) keep the NDP on top in BC...and although I'm usually in agreement with you, I don't know about our own Province...we'd have to work out details like an economy of sorts...maybe we could simply concentrate on tourism, wine, and foodie tours...dunno...
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Because Vancouver Island is on the west coast, and when lines were first being drawn on the map of Canada it simply wasn't as important as those little islands on the east coast.
ReplyDeleteBecause we'd have to finance bc ferries all by ourselves.
ReplyDeleteYou all have it wrong. Lefty's right. Provincehood or some form of viable autonomy. Structure Vancouver Island along the lines of the Channel Islands. Guernsey or Sark come to mind. A Canadian tax haven. Get all that money out of the Caribbean and put it to work right here. Too damned many people are coming here on the cheap these days. Time to charge admission, especially as parts of Canada begin to feel the sting of climate change.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it people who live else where in Canada cannot state correct information about Newfoundland and Labrador....."Newfoundland and Labrador has a population of 514,536, more than half of which lives on the Avalon ... Articles with unsourced statements from October 2012" That's a differece of 123,464 between both islands...not so meagre now is it? Go for it if Vancouver Island can become a province but be aware, when Newfoundland and Labrador have a beef with the federal government, they have to scream about it. If not, it is not heard in Ottawa. The same could happen to Vancouver Island as the population would be smaller and smaller means to Ottawa "we don't need to listen to you".
ReplyDeletePut me down for our own country. A tax haven! Wouldn't that be deliciously ironic?
ReplyDeleteNo Ferries to finance, the Fed's would build a bridge.
ReplyDeleteTurn the legislature building into a world class casino and the Empress into a legalized brothel and we could have a tax free country.
ReplyDeleteVancouver Island should definitely go the way that Alberta and Saskatchewan are going. Becoming free and truly democratic Republics
ReplyDeleteA little bit of history... Vancouver Island was an independent colony. BC talked the island in to joining so we join Canada. Victoria was a free port...a tax haven if you will, and we had to give it up as part of the deal to join BC. The other parts of the deal were that we would get a railway running up and down the island, and that the capital of BC would move to Victoria. While Vancouver Island's flag (granted by Queen Victoria) was never officially rescinded, BC has gone back on the deal for our railway, and moved most of the ministries to the mainland. In short, we wouldn't need to become a province, just determine the legal means to withdrawal from a contract that the province of BC has already broken.
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I am all for staying within the realm of canada but as a tax haven along the lines of the canary and sark islands. It would be tough at first but all things are. If people here put down their marijuana cigarettes and focused on political and economical change the ball would be in our court, as for the ferries it would end up being a joint venture and as for a bridge, it would not happen at all.One poster did the research and is right in the fact that vancouver island was absorbed by b.c. with certain stipulations that have long since expired, legally a new contract can be drawn up.
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