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In <323E4521.3CBE@mlink.net>, Elie Charest <turgon@mlink.net> writes:

>> You have a lot of nerves to talk
>> about "excesses of the past". Like we were persecuted or something. My God! At
>> least, have the decency to research your own history. You're pathetic to allow
>> yourself to subscribe to this easy rhetoric.
>
>Va relire le rapport Durham.

A quel but? Le rapport Durham n'a jamais ete  applique  dans  les
colonies  ici, alors on peut bien se demander pourquoi ca revient
dans ces discussions ici.

>Notez bien, je ne suis pas contre une union de type Conf�d�rative. Mais
>puisqu'il semble �vident qu'une telle union ne serait pas accept�e par
>le reste du pays... allons-y pour la souverainet�. 

Ce ne serait pas une union, telle que concue par les separatists
comme Bourrassa, Johnson, Parizeau, etc... alors a quoi bon?

>A country that works. A smaller country that can better adjust to rapid
>economic changes. A country where we have one dominant culture - like
>most normal countries - instead of an incessant power struggle between
>two dominant cultures.

Here is exactly where your correspondant is forced  to  disagree.
You,  and  most  franco-quebecois separatists it appears, want to
eliminate from Quebec all vestiges of other cultures,  no  matter
at  what  price.  Would an independent country within what is now
Quebec work very well? It's hard to  say,  but  Canada  certainly
works   better,  and  has  worked  much  better  for  francophone
canadians than any other conceivable arrangement.

>> As for constitutional deadlock, for as long as Quebec is represented by
>> secessionists, there can never be any agreement.
>
>The liberals haven't done much better. But you probably believe they're
>sovereignists, too!

The  Liberal  party  in  Quebec  has  certainly never entertained
thoughts of cooperating within  the  federation,  and  either  in
power or outside of it has continually tried to push for autonomy
for Quebec. 

>Oh yeah. That's why we've got the biggest national debt in the
>industrialized world!

That  stems  largely  from  the  pernicious  habit  introduced by
successive quebecois PM's (and  the  Quebec  caucus  that  backed
them)   of  transferring  lavish  amounts  of  federal  money  to
provincial control.  

Glenn Mor