Will Canada be destroyed?
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According to the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) former public works minister and Canadian ambassador to Denmark Alfonso Gagliano thinks so.
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Former public works minister Alfonso Gagliano has accused Prime Minister Paul Martin of wrecking the country and the Liberal party.
“The separation of Quebec from Canada is not stoppable,’ Alfonso Gagliano told Radio-Canada. “He’s going to destroy the party and break up the country,” Gagliano said during a television interview with the CBC’s French-language network.
Gagliano was Canada’s ambassador to Denmark until Martin fired him over allegations of impropriety under the sponsorship program, which was his responsibility as public works minister.
Gagliano told Radio-Canada on Monday that the revelations at the sponsorship inquiry – called by Martin – will inevitably lead the country to break up.
Polls suggest that testimony at the inquiry has turned Canadians against the ruling minority Liberals.
The Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois seem sure to try to bring them down with a confidence vote, which, if successful, could prompt an election as early as June.
If that happens, Gagliano predicted, the Bloc will increase its number of seats. Then the Parti Québécois will sweep the province and demand Quebec sovereignty, he said.
“Of course, if [Quebec Liberal Premier Jean] Charest makes a miracle and forms a second government, it could possibly be put off,” he told the broadcaster.
“But I think that at this stage, the separation of Quebec from Canada is not stoppable. It’s a question of time. It’s going to happen.”
In 1967 Charles De Gaulle gave his “Vive Quebec Libre” speech and was asked to leave Canada– but Qubecois separatism is alive once again, and strengthened by the Liberal Party’s Adscam scandal. |
