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Could Quebec survive economically as a separate nation? The answer to this question depends largely on the person who is quoting the statistics. Belonging to the Confederation cost Quebec 9 billion dollars between 1965 and 1975, according to Parti Quebecois statistics. Federal politicians prefer to use the year 1976 as an example. In that year, they say, Quebec received from the federal government $3 billion more than it contributed. Of course, separatists must also consider the costs they would incur if they were to form an independent nation. Such responsibilities as maintenance of foreign embassies and defense bite heavily into...
Since the election of the Parti Quebecois, political-economic uncertainty has already decreased the value of the Canadian dollar by more than ten per cent in relation to the American dollar. It would certainly not be in America's interest to see such a trend continue for very long...
...constitution when he presented a white paper on April 1 recommending that French become the sole official language of the legislature and the courts in Quebec. Section 133 of the British North America Act guarantees the use of both English and French in Quebec courts and legislature. If the Parti Quebecois passes these recommendations as law, it could face a determined federal opponent in Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau...
Despite disagreements between the Parti Quebecois and Trudeau, the threat of civil war seems remote after considering the results of a recent Gallup Poll by the Canadian Institute of Public Opinion. The poll showed that only 18.7 per cent of the 1043 English-speaking and French-speaking Canadians interviewed thought that "Ottawa should use force to prevent Quebec's separation...
Many observers believe that the Quebecers' election of the Parti Quebecois was more a protest against the incumbent Liberal government than a declaration of support for separation. Levesque hardly mentioned the sensitive separation issue during his election campaign...