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...respect for their country, Canadians have traditionally treated their nationality with a cynicism bordering on embarrassment. In a country whose people are unaccustomed to national pride, the separatists have a least for the moment seized the initiative. The "patriotic rhetoric and fervor" which Fraser mentioned presently belong to the Parti Quebecois. "This country will be lost if people aren't prepared to get just as tough as Levesque is," Fraser suggested...
Last spring, after some uneven seasons, Les Canadiens returned the Stanley Cup to Quebec by sweeping the Philadelphia Flyers. This season Les Canadiens have outdistanced the rest of the league. On one November night when they were playing St. Louis, the Parti Québécois, which supports independence for the province, swept an election. The temptation to see Les Canadiens as symbolic of the independence movement stirred again. Again, Les Canadiens were more than a hockey team. Now they represented political activism. Such theories are impervious to everything but facts...
Home Ice. The actors played a symbolic scene with intensity. The athletes talked about endurance. The director smoothed some rough spots. Scotty Bowman discussed "home ice advantage." Les Canadiens represent good hockey The Parti Québécois represents French Canadian political protest. The two meet only in Salutin's play. One can appreciate the intensity of hockey in Quebec, deeply and pleasurably, without having to see slapshots as metaphors...
...vesque, 54. Once a firebrand Cabinet minister in the federalist Liberal government of Quebec, he was even considered by some-in much earlier days -as a possible candidate for Prime Minister of Canada. Now the voluble, hyperactive Levesque says that anyone who does not believe his separatist Parti Quebecois is determined to seek national independence is "daydreaming...
...year later he founded the Parti Québécois. Lévesque's moderate approach to separatism through the ballot box managed to survive Canadian revulsion during the October Crisis of 1970, when separatist terrorists kidnaped British Trade Commissioner James Cross and murdered the province's Labor Minister, Pierre Laporte...