Going back farther, the USA fought a war to get you in 1812...
That said it is worth reflecting that most of the natural resources that Quebec has is on land that was added post-Confederation.
Quebec received control of that land under a number of requirements, including that they take care of the natives. The natives do not believe that this requirement has been met, which is why for example the Cree voted over 95% for seceding from Quebec if Quebec seceded from Canada, by force if necessary. While the Quebecois were mixed on whether to secede, they had very strong opinions that Quebec was an indivisible whole. Including land given post-Confederation.
It would have been interesting to see what would have happened with this land if the 1995 referendum had gone through. I'm quite sure that nobody outside of Quebec would have agreed with the reasoning that "Canada is divisible but Quebec is not". So how would Canada have handled the question of how to handle the economically valuable parts of Quebec that wanted back into Canada?
That said it is worth reflecting that most of the natural resources that Quebec has is on land that was added post-Confederation.
Quebec received control of that land under a number of requirements, including that they take care of the natives. The natives do not believe that this requirement has been met, which is why for example the Cree voted over 95% for seceding from Quebec if Quebec seceded from Canada, by force if necessary. While the Quebecois were mixed on whether to secede, they had very strong opinions that Quebec was an indivisible whole. Including land given post-Confederation.
It would have been interesting to see what would have happened with this land if the 1995 referendum had gone through. I'm quite sure that nobody outside of Quebec would have agreed with the reasoning that "Canada is divisible but Quebec is not". So how would Canada have handled the question of how to handle the economically valuable parts of Quebec that wanted back into Canada?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_Quebec for more on this.