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Patrick Chung's Crimson editorial, "Stealing Quebec; Jacques Parizeau Is Acting on a Phony Mandate" (Sep. 20, 1994), depicts an alarmist and inaccurate image of the post-election situation in Quebec and Canada...
Separatists Win in Quebec...
Voters in Quebec elected a government committed to making the Canadian province an independent country. Jacques Parizeau, leader of the Parti Quebecois, which captured 44.7% of the vote, vowed to hold a referendum within 10 months on whether Quebec should secede, though polls during the campaign showed that most Quebeckers do not want independence...
Parizeau makes ridiculous almost real claims. He promised that if Quebec were to separate, it would not pay its entire share of the Canadian debt. But at the same time, it would insist that the Canadian government live up to its commitment to subsidize Quebec and potential hosting of the Olympics in the year...
...economic rationale for separation is equally obtuse: the only tangible economic benefit of separation he claims is eliminating provincial-federal government duplication, and the construction of a cluster of embassies in Quebec City. This files in the face of economic forecasts of an economically isolated Quebec with no leg to stand...