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...meet the province's demands for special constitutional status. Time ran out on the so-called Meech Lake accord only two days before St. Jean- Baptiste Day, the traditional holiday of Quebec, and French Canadians made the most of the coincidence. Revelers and elaborate floats jammed three miles of Montreal's Rue Sherbrooke last week, celebrating the pride and power of nationalism. "Quebeckers to the streets," they shouted, "Canadians on the sidewalk...
That was not the definitive answer to the question of what next for Quebec. The crowd in Montreal was venting some of the frustration that had built up during years of wearying constitutional dispute about the status of the Gallic province of 6.5 million people in the midst of a predominantly English- speaking country of 26.5 million. The fervor of the throng was real, but when the party was over, Quebec's future course was no clearer...
Canada's 123-year-old confederation has been based on a "misunderstanding" all along, says Charles Taylor, a political science professor at Montreal's McGill University. "Quebec already has a de facto special arrangement. We have our own provincial pension plan, immigration arrangements, income tax. But as soon as you say to the rest of Canada, 'Let's make it legal,' all hell breaks loose...
...least, no new attempt is likely, because Canadians of all persuasions are heading for their lakes and summer cottages. National leaders are counseling calm, and Jean Chretien, the newly elected head of the opposition Liberal Party, suggests that Canadians focus their attention on the pennant races of the Montreal Expos and Toronto Blue Jays. Not everyone took the advice to cool it. Quebec City and several other towns and suburbs announced they were canceling festivities marking Canada Day, the national day, on Sunday...
...upon his time, there were fears that Mandela would be overtaxed. His crowded American itinerary would test the stamina of a presidential campaigner, much less a frail-looking 71-year-old recovering from surgery to remove a benign cyst from his bladder. Mandela's arrival in New York from Montreal had to be delayed by two hours to give him more time to rest...