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

To: Graystone who wrote (204)	11/26/2002 11:59:44 AM
From: SofaSpud	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 443

The Quebec separatist movement is alive and well today in the BLOC Quebecois... I would quibble with the accuracy of that statement. Yes, the Bloc is comprised of separatists. I would argue, though, that the Bloc will find it challenging to hold the 35 seats it has now, let alone grow. At the moment separatism is on the back burner in Quebec -- the people there are tired of pissing away their energies on it at the expense of very real issues of public policy that have been neglected for a generation. That's Super Mario's appeal -- he's not saying you have to renounce separatism, just that there are way higher priorities right now. IMHO it's a stretch to say that separatism is alive and well. Note that I am not saying that can't change, just that it's not there right now.

To: Graystone who wrote (204)	11/26/2002 4:30:36 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 443

From my viewpoint, the Quebec question is something Canadians have to settle themselves. It's not that we have no interests in the outcome, but it is not our country or our business. If separation does come, hopefully it will be peaceful; if not, I expect the US would get large numbers of Canadian refugees and also some of the violence would spill over here. And the US is clearly better off with a single peaceful neighbor to its north than with two that are at each others' throats. draconian language laws What language is used in Quebec's public schools? Both? Equally? Does Quebec follow the current Canadian custom of dual-language signage, etc? be very effective in halting the advance of English Has anyone told them English is not fatal? :-)