Word: partie
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...appears that independence on the terms of the Parti Quebecois (P.Q.) would not be a real independence at all, only a new form of dependence. The significant changes which the P.Q. seems to want can in all likelihood be obtained within a further decentralized federalism, without the pageantry and the insecurities of formal independence...
...integrated economies are usually more attractive to investors than smaller economies. Similarly, the political stability offered by a larger nation is often preferred to the greater political instability of smaller units. But the basic handicap which a post-independence Quebec would face lies in the very constitution of the Parti Quebecois...
...separatism? Why now? For the Parti Québécois, the answer is simple logic: a people with a common language, customs and culture should "naturally" form a nation-state. That conviction has been nourished by a sudden, popular expansion of French pride, in which Quebec became, if not a political state, most certainly a state of mind. It is summarized in a provincial-government slogan: "De plus en plus en Québec, c 'est en français que ça se passe " (More and more in Quebec, it's in French that things are happening). Quebec has sprouted dozens...
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...rest of Canada, the Parti Québécois' determination to break away from the confederation has created fear, frustration and resentment. "What more can the people of other provinces do?" asks Carrol Potter, a retired Canadian armed forces veteran in tiny Middleton, N.S. "We have a French Canadian Governor-General [who represents Queen Elizabeth II], a French Canadian Prime Minister and a lopsided number of French Canadians in the federal Cabinet in Ottawa [twelve out of 33]. Yet we are told that the French Canadian is still dissatisfied...