Referendums: Quebec and Referendum

referendums: Just as often, however, referendums seem to re-enforce deeply bitter divides, according to Toronto Star. When then-premier Jacques Parizeau famously conceded defeat in Quebec 1995 sovereignty referendum, he declared the Yes side had only lost due to money and the ethnic vote. By Jaime Watt Sun., Sept. 11, 2016 Referendums are often called to reach a consensus on a way forward. The referendum settled the question, but only in the near-term; sovereigntists continued to win a plurality of seats in Quebec for years afterward. The voters, they argued, didn't know what was best for them. When Britons voted by a narrow margin to leave the European Union, dozens of high-profile media and political figures lamented the ignorance of voters and argued that the referendum need not be binding after all. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.