Word: quebecers
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...Howdy, Trading Pardners The Summit of the Americas in Quebec will be Bush's chance to meet the hemispheric neighbors ? and hopefully allay a few fears about the future of free trade...
...Ready For Battle Thousands of demonstrators are expected in Quebec City-and so is an intimidating display of force by security agencies
...Spirit of Quebec City The third Summit of the Americas calls for vision-and confidence...
...less than two weeks, when the latest contingent of 34 American leaders meets for the third quadrennial summit, in Quebec City, the confident smiles will be back in place. The two-day gathering will produce a joint political declaration that bolsters the democratic solidarity of the hemisphere and an 18-point collective "action plan" that covers initiatives ranging from toughening the war against drugs and providing rural areas with access to computer technologies to the creation of a pan-American network of weather forecasters to assist in the management of natural disasters. And the meeting will undoubtedly announce significant progress...
...French-speaking city whose picturesque 18th-century old town was denominated as a world heritage landmark by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, will be fenced off and guarded by phalanxes of police in riot gear. Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to descend upon Quebec City to vent their spleen at capitalism, globalization and the evils of free trade and to demonstrate their conviction that the FTAA will make things worse instead of better. A minority have vowed to shut down the meeting, in a replay of the chaos that beset the 1999 gathering...