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There was also a motive for murder: money. Bank documents seized by police showed evidence of squabbling within the sect about finances. New members were charged steep initiation fees and required to sign away their assets. The sect / acquired farms and lavish houses in Geneva, southern France and Quebec. A disaffected former follower, Rose Marie Klaus, told a Quebec newspaper last year that she and her husband had given nearly $500,000 to Jouret and never saw it again. Giacobino, the owner of the farm in Cheiry, was heard complaining to friends about Di Mambro's free-spending ways...
...debate on the place of Quebec in Canada will certainly not benefit from misinformation and the type of inflammatory comments Chung makes. Suzanne Gaudet, Harvard Graduate Student Member, Canadian Club
...right about the double meaning, however it certainly cannot be said that the PQ's goal of separation from Canada was hidden from the public. It has been known for more than 18 years that the Parn Quebecois's ideal is for Quebec to be sovereign. Furthermore, during the campaign, it was widely advertised that the PQ planned to work toward the independence of Quebec if it formed a new government. Separation was one of the party's principal political platforms. The voters knew that, if elected, the PQ would plan a referendum on the issue of separation within...
Parizeau, although he might not be the ideal leader for Quebec, is not the demon Chung describes. Parizeau has always openly stood by his belief in separation, both in 1980 when he was not in a position to take power if separation would have occurred, and in 1984 when he left the PQ because other Quebec nationalists did not stick to their original ideal of an independent Quebec...
Furthermore, the author insults Quebecers by portraying them as naive victims of Parizeau's political machine. The Quebecers have been dealing with the idea of separation for 20 years. They have tried to reconcile their idea of a country with the rest of Canada. They are part of a democracy, and they believe in democracy. Finally, it is certain that the leaders of the federalist, opposition will be there during the referendum campaign to answer the PQ's "propaganda" with their own "propaganda" on what is best for Quebec...