What is the difference between a binding plebiscite and binding arbitration?

On  March 7th, Openfile.ca reports on a suggestion to do a story on Sunday shopping five years later: "no such thing as a binding plebiscite" .  Since then I have wondered

and thought really hard about this and honestly I have more questions.

 

“There is no such thing as a binding plebiscite,” said Dana Doiron, Director of Policy and Communications at Elections Nova Scotia.

“It’s a test of the wind.” “A plebiscite or referendum is not really binding on political bodies in legal terms,” said Wayne MacKay, who teaches constitutional and public law at Dalhousie University.

 

So now I have questions. What is the difference between a binding plebiscite and binding arbitration?  On Saturday, March 24, 2012, I submitted this story for a suggestion to openfile.ca and asked them

to report on it . Needless to say there wasn't a response from openfile.ca. I have to wonder if a binding plebiscite isn't real, then is binding arbitration real?  Obviously, we are not being told the truth as to what's really happening here?  Nova Scotians deserve to know the truth. After all, we had a binding plebiscite in 2004. What do they mean by binding? None of these questions have been answered. Our money was spent on a democratic vote and excuses are made so that our politicians are not held accountable for ignoring a democratic vote. It's time we speak up. You can contact openfile.ca here- http://halifax.openfile.ca/contact-openfile . Ask

them why our suggestion wasn't reported? Our provincial newspaper would also be a good place to ask why they are not reporting this story. Contact them here- http://thechronicleherald.ca/about/contact-us

You can also contact our local radio talk show hosts and ask them why they are not reporting this? A binding plebiscite isn't real? No such a thing? Funny as it seems, this is news

and our radio talk show hosts don't say a word about it. Doesn't this have you wondering just a bit?  Contact News957 - http://www.news957.com/shows