similar institutional arrangements would be necessary to support a monetary union between an independent Scotland and the rest of the UK."
In early March, another Canadian liberal, the former leader of the party
Stéphane Dion, will be in Spain to share his experience as a person who
lived through and won a secessionist debate, the one about Quebec. Mr. Dion is a federalist francophone
form Quebec, and he is both a politician and an academic, which means
that his arguments have a double perspective, and are far away from a populist appeal. In a previous shorter visit to Spain, he already expressed his
opinion that secessions in democratic societies have a strong component
of democratic manipulation, and although he was a winner in the
referendum about independence in Quebec in 1980 and 1995, he warned that
independencereferenda are divise and socially dangerous.
The Canadian federalists, though, not only were tough in their criticism to secession movements in democratic societies, but offered and worked for alternatives that guarantee a better and more peaceful future for their societies.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

I have signed the Manifesto for a global democracy, I encourage everybody to support it. It starts by saying this:

Politics lags behind the facts. We live in an era
of deep technological and economic change that has not been matched by a
similar development of public institutions responsible for its
regulation. The economy has been globalized but political institutions
and democracy have not kept pace. In spite of their many peculiarities,
differences and limitations, the protests that are growing all over the
world show an increasing discontent with the decision-making system, the
existing forms