Quebec Culture is best Protected...

I believe that the luxury of a Québecois culture and language would be the first things to be compromised after independence. Canada has protected the uniqueness of Québec, and it is that very uniqueness which will be in jeopardy if they are to nurture a new country in a hostile economic world. Only France would have the patience to deal (in the French language) with an independent and chauvinist Québec. Other countries would be completely insensitive to their "uniqueness". Canada's committment to the protection of Québec has no less than enshrined it as a non-American culture in North America. Québec would be forced to deal with the real world through a linguistic and cultural black market, if it wanted to maintain the guise of being truly French.

Bottom line: Québec would be for sale "the morning after", and it may well discover that its previously abundant resorces are no longer within its new borders. For sale, with very little to sell but its unique culture, a tourist destination, a cultural curiosity, a neurotic "Disneypays"...masters of their own house, but at what cost?

Kirk Cheney - montage@astral.magic.ca