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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (80245)	3/7/2003 7:10:53 PM
From: paul_philp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

What changes in that relationship do you see, when/if Quebec secedes? Every group of people, with a separate language, eventually wants a separate nation, and Quebec has been moving in that direction for decades. So I take it as a given, that at some point they will secede. The energy for separation is waning a bit right now but the core 35% is still there. They came close once and that freaked everybody on both sides. Hard to say what would happen but some sort of less-than-nation state would form. I am not 100% that Canada would survive, there is a reasonably strong separation feeling in Alberta as well. If Quebec gets any special deal, the good oil producing folk of Alberta will want the same thing. Montreal would also be tricky since it has a very significant English speaking population and separation is not well received by many in Montreal. It is possible that Montreal would want to stay part of Canada. Paul