Sunday, October 17, 2010

Quebec Separatism Not Dead

Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe had some interesting things to say to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. His main message was that the ethnic French majority in Quebec have not given up taking their province out of Canada and making it an independent, French-speaking nation.

For those of you who follow the happenings of our large, lightly populated neighbor to the north, this article in The Star is an interesting reminder that we cannot take Canada for granted. As we noted in the previous posting, multiculturalism hasn't worked in Canada either.