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Patrick Chung's Crimson editorial, "Stealing Quebec; Jacques Parizeau Is Acting on a Phony Mandate" (Sep. 20, 1994), depicts an alarmist and inaccurate image of the post-election situation in Quebec and Canada...
...government will use propaganda to get the Quebecers to adhere to the separatist idea. He ends by writing: "[The PQ's] hope is that Quebecers won't catch on to their plan, will be manipulated by their propaganda and will be catapulted into economic and political disarray so that Parizeau can get his face painted on a 20-franc bill...
...Parizeau, although he might not be the ideal leader for Quebec, is not the demon Chung describes. Parizeau has always openly stood by his belief in separation, both in 1980 when he was not in a position to take power if separation would have occurred, and in 1984 when he left the PQ because other Quebec nationalists did not stick to their original ideal of an independent Quebec...
Voters in Quebec elected a government committed to making the Canadian province an independent country. Jacques Parizeau, leader of the Parti Quebecois, which captured 44.7% of the vote, vowed to hold a referendum within 10 months on whether Quebec should secede, though polls during the campaign showed that most Quebeckers do not want independence...
These questions seem almost immaterial to Parizeau and to the PQ. Their hope is that Quebecers won't catch on to their plan, will be by their propaganda, and will be catapulted into economic, end political disarray so that Parizeau can get his face painted on a 20-franc bill...