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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
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