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This referendum would also have required approval by 60% of those voting. The second referendum was held on May 12, 2009, in conjunction with the provincial election. The results were a "supermajority" of 60.92% voting for retaining the current "first past the post" electoral system and 39.8% voting for the proposed Single Transferable Vote.
Canadian electoral calendar, 2007; 2007 Alberta provincial by-elections; 2007 Belfast-Murray River provincial by-election; 2007 Canadian federal by-elections; 2007 Charlevoix provincial by-election; 2007 Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage provincial by-election; Commission scolaire de la Région-de-Sherbrooke election, 2007
The projected cost for the referendum was $6.825 million, [11] an amount that fell short of the minimum $13 million called for by Fair Vote Canada. The assigned money would give one mailout to each Ontario household, a part-time Referendum Resource Officer in each of the province's ridings, a call centre and a website.
Cascadia. Cascadia. Proposed state: Republic of Cascadia Advocacy group: Cascadia Department of Bioregion [3] [4] [5] Western Canada. Western Canada. Proposed state: West Canada (includes Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan as well as (sometimes) Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut)
January 5 – The domed roof of BC Place Stadium in Vancouver collapses.; January 11 – A major blizzard rips through Central Saskatchewan.; January – The Quebec town of Hérouxville received international attention when its town council passed controversial measures concerning practices which the residents deemed unsuitable for life in Hérouxville for potential new immigrants, despite the ...
The impact of the referendum caused the Canadian Press to label it the Canadian Newsmaker of the Year, an honour that usually goes to individual people. CBC said that this was the first time that the "country's newsrooms have selected a symbol instead of a specific person", which was done again in 2006, [17] 2007, and 2020.
2007 Andalusian Statute of Autonomy referendum; 2007 Chechen constitutional referendum; 2007 Micronesian parliamentary election; 2007 Portuguese abortion referendum; 2007 Slovenian privatisation referendum; 2007 Swiss referendums; 2007 Thai constitutional referendum; 2007 Turkish constitutional referendum
As an example of what ex-premier Bernard Landry explained, it can be established that after the Quebec Referendum of 1995 where the Yes vote lost by a margin of about 0.5% (49.42% Yes, 50.58% No), no attempts to partition were made by the "Yes" voter base, in respect of the referendum. It is an argument based less on legal grounds, and more on ...