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Ontario, the most populous and richest province, which carries on $25.5 billion in trade annually with Quebec, is overtly putting economics first. Premier David Peterson quickly visited Bourassa last week to reassure all Canadians "that we will work together" to ensure that it will be "business as usual...
...officials in the U.S. are hoping for too. Two- way trade across the border last year totaled almost $170 billion. Washington hopes Canada will not break up and does not think it will. But if it does, the Bush Administration is prepared to live with whatever arrangement Ottawa and Quebec can agree on. Washington's biggest concern is that the new Canadian entity retain its economic health. Like most Americans, officials in Washington seem to think Canada is such a stable, prosperous and rational society that it will resolve its problems sensibly...
...major change since the late 1960s, when Quebec separatism first became a serious political force, is that today no one questions Quebec's potential ability to survive as an independent country. The province's economic dynamism and cultural solidarity have given its politicians and businessmen a remarkable degree of self-confidence. Still, many participants in the debate do not believe a final split need occur. "When you come right down to it," says Alain Dubuc, an editor of the Montreal daily La Presse, "Quebeckers don't want to separate. What we need is a simplification of the relationship." Dubuc envisions...
...Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa talked with TIME senior editor George Russell and Ottawa bureau chief James Graff in Bourassa's 17th-floor offices in Montreal's Quebec Hydro building. Excerpts...
...fought for it for three years because my judgment was that it was a good deal for Quebec. Finally, it did not work. I was sad, but I had to turn around and say there is another challenge ahead...