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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (195)	11/25/2002 5:23:04 PM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 443

...is not one of those who think Quebec would be better off minus the rest of Canada. Of course his job is to insure Quebec does not leave and that has alienated the rest of Canada. A province of Canada has much more autonomy than a state of the USA. It is possible for a province to exit Federation. Quebec has left wing radicals that want to exit and the west has well financed right wing conservatives that want to leave. The state controlled media is becoming less and less of a voice in anybody sticking it out so I would predict in ten years there will be more than one country north of 69, I mean 49...

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (195)	11/26/2002 1:38:16 AM
From: Graystone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 443

Separatism : Rene Levesque or The Referendum The legacy of Rene Levesque can be seen in the close results in our last referendum. The Quebec separatist movement is alive and well today in the BLOC Quebecois, a Separatist federal political party. The FLQ and Black October raised a deep understanding of the consequences of violence in the Canadian psyche but did little to diminish the popularity of great champions of Quebec separation like Mr. Levesque. Today the province of Quebec has draconian language laws which have proven to be very effective in halting the advance of English but most Canadians are not threatened by this. French Immersion education, where the school environment is entirely French, is popular in Western Canada, students become bilingual even when their parents aren't. hèhehéh <g>