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To: Claude Cormier who wrote (80314)	12/30/2001 1:34:50 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 116753

You could add several more reasons to the equation to establish why secession/patriation is not workable or correct. 1. Quebec as a Province today was formed from an English colony called Quebec from land that the English government of the day had colonized South of the St Lawrence and in what is now northern Quebec prior to 1620. The northern land was ceded to Quebec as a Province by the federal government of Canada and the British government in the early 1900's by resolution of the English treaty agreements with the natives. Thus by no right of previous ownership did the fr. ever control politically a majority the land that they would (wish to) inherit. The fr. colonies of the 1600's were mainly on the North Shore of the St Lawrence and in South Ontario, with some showing in Northern New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. 2. It is doubtful that legally the people of Quebec presently can lay any claim to totally independent self determination as a country because they got most of their land and their government from the Government of England, and not from their own independent cultural colonization. The colonization of North America since the early 1600's was 90% carried out by English interests. Spain had ceded its dominion in the area and France had declined to pursue the matter by the early 1700's, except to help the independence movement of the colonists in the lower 13 colonies some 75 years later in their revolutionary war. 3. More than 60% of the people in Quebec are unsure of their future as an independent country and no doubt do wish to be polically attached to Canada. Those terms of attachment are becoming ever more debated. The existence of unconstitutional laws such as the language law, and the unprecedented harassment of English speaking people in the Province of Quebec make that attachment ever more tenuous and ultimately costlyto English Canada. It costs the Enlish speaking tax payer in other provinces 2/3 of his tax dollar to maintain the corruption, infamy and political theft that is represented by Quebec and the fr. controlled federal governments that it elects. It may serve the interests of the secessionists that it would be cheaper and more productive for the rest of Canada to ask Quebec to go it on their own without the benefit of English money and support. In the end a right thinking government may dictate to the fr. speaking people of Quebec that the make a choice -- Fair government and freedom for the people there, or they will be asked to leave by the rest of Canada and to accept what land we allow them. It is not to be that they may choose to leave and take what they think they can. EC<:-}