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Logic strains itself in national unity debate
While the federal government gets into the unity debate through various means consider
the following:
Lucien Bouchard says Canada is divisible but Quebec is not. Jean Chretien says if
Canada is divisble so is Quebec.
The separatists began the idea of Quebec partitioning itself off from Canada saying it
was a perfectly peaceful and democratic process. But a PQ minister now says that to talk
about partitionaing Quebec in any way would be undemocratic and would lead to violence.
Why is the federal goverment waiting for the PQ to hold a referendum? Why does it not
have its own referendum in Quebec and elsewhere on various relevant issues such as
devolution of powers to the provinces and Aboriginal self government?
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