1. Fine @DougSaunders column & Scottish & Quebec separatism got me thinking ona hidden nexus. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-debate/in-scotland-separatists-love-money-and-the-ethnic-vote/article18061472/ …
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2. Quebec separatism (and Canadian disunity in general) is Scotland's revenge on the British Empire. Let me explain.
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3. Scotland incorporated into England in 1707 is Act of Union. A unitary state rather than a federation.
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4. Scots rebel from time to time, but rebellions are crushed and Scotland effectively absorbed into larger British identity.
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4. Ambitious Scots, thwarted at home, become key junior officers of British Empire: James Murray becomes Governor of Quebec (1760-68)
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5. As governor of Quebec, Murray promolgates the Quebec Act, which gives degree of recognition to language/religious rights not found in UK.
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6. Murray became the first of many Scottish colonial officials who carved out ideas of provincial rights & federation in Canada.
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7. Before repatriation of Constitution in 1982, key Canadian cases ended up in British courts, often in hands of Scottish judges.
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8. Scottish judges played key role in creating & expanding idea of provincial rights in Canada.
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9. What the Scots couldn't enjoy in the UK, they created in Canada: a fusion of parliamentary system with federation.
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10. This is all pretty hypothetical (and perhaps fanciful) but serious scholar should look into Scottish role in Canadian federalism.
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