P.S. This is why Quebec will never secede from Canada. That province has a lot of idiotic nonsense like this that it would never be able to sustain if it were on its own.
I guess a better word would have been: "manipulate", but inflate really is the goal.
And thanks again - always enjoy your Canadian perspectives.
Except that voters there are pushing in that direction. The separatist party just made a major advancement in taking over the QC government. (My wife lived there when the vote to secede failed by a hair; that was too close for advocates to give up.)
The Maritime provinces take it for granted QC will secede, severing their geographic connection to the rest of Canada, and it's a given (to them) they will just become the 51st, 52nd, and 53rd states of the USA. (My parents vacation there on a regular basis; the locals consider US annexation a foregone conclusion.)