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The Quebec referendums caused a corporate exodus from the province due to the uncertainly.
I fully expect the same to happen in Alberta unless the referendum delivers an overwhelming STFU result to the separatists.
Unless the questions have changed, they're super leading to the point where an average person with no desire to separate could accidentally vote in favour on at least a few parts.
considering the province keeps hiding the results of preliminary votes on the matter, it likely will.
this is like expecting an abusing partner to change,
fuck the corpos whose loyalty lies outside of Canada.
Canadians will create new corpos and keep the $ here.
SERIOUSLY LET THEM FUCKING LEAVE.
But did they? Which companies left Quebec for another province?
Yes
https://montrealgazette.com/news/gloomier-times-head-offices-migrated/
https://www.upi.com/amp/Archives/1982/04/01/The-continuing-exodus-of-corporate-head-offices-from-Montreal/6917386485200/
And it's not only Quebec that suffered from corporate migration due to seperatism:
https://www.arabnews.com/world/flight-of-head-offices-from-catalonia-quebec-went-through-it-1175901
Let's go through them.
Being part of two major corporate moves I can tell you no company decides in 3 weeks they are moving their head office. It takes months, sometimes years of planning. Canadian Pacific had this on the radar for a long time. "...the move had nothing to do with politics or language..."
UPI announced leaving Quebec in 1982, but the separation referendum occured in 1995. Are you suggesting they moved their head office 13 years BEFORE the referundum proactively? The logic doesn't work.
This is just bad journalism saying Catalonia experieced something similar to Quebec, without saying what happened in Quebec.
Have companies left Quebec? Absolutely. But it is more for the draconian forced French language requrements in business than because of the referendum.