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To: Gord Bolton who wrote (24642)	12/20/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 116979

I've seen polls suggesting otherwise. If all Quebec wanted was a few more provincial powers why is everyone up in arms about it? Why are they lamenting the economic damage this will do to Quebec? No, sovereignty obviously means much more. And considering the horrendous decline in the Canadian dollar, Quebecers can hardly now believe their own currency issued would do much worse.

To: Gord Bolton who wrote (24642)	12/21/1998 2:27:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 116979

Trust me the French do no need any more power in this country. It is high time the English speakers got back some. The Liberals would have you believe if they did King Herod would return and the Corn Cob pipe clog dancers would have to take off into the Laurentians or they would be swallowed whole like Jonah by the whale. Hogwash. Clever terrorist propaganda but if it hasn't happened in 400 years it ain't about to happen. When the English showed up in Canada about 350 years ago there were perhaps 20,000 people speaking French and perhaps 1 million speaking a variety of other languages. Now there are 8 million speaking French. I don't see that vector plotted as showing an extinguishment as imminent. Few people remember that most of the map of Quebec was formed when a treaty was made with the Indians as late as 1910. That great northern land mass was part of Prince Rupert's Land, a British Colony for 300 years. Never was much French spoke there until about 40 years ago. EC<:-}