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...YEARS, CANADA HAS projected a puzzling image to the world: a wealthy and comfortable nation that keeps warring peaceably with itself. During all that time, the French-speaking province of Quebec demanded additional powers to preserve its language and unique culture, while separatist pressure, generated by the Parti Quebecois, threatened breakaway if the demands were frustrated. The nine mostly English-speaking provinces were often resentful of Quebec's push for special status but eager to defend their own vision of the union. In one failed constitutional negotiation after another, doomsayers declared that the country's future was at stake. From...
...left 27 million Canadians relieved that, at least for now, the perennial constitutional issue has been swept off the table. The compromise proposal, supported strongly by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, lost by a nationwide vote of 54% to 45%; it was rejected in six of the 10 provinces, including Quebec. That, noted Brian Falesky, a lawyer in Calgary, Alberta, "was the first time Canadians became passionate about the destiny of the country since World War II. Sure, there was divergence on issues. People rejected the package, but they emphatically didn't reject Canada...
...Gatineau, Quebec native is just a sophomore, but after his freshman year, he received enough honors and press clippings to fill any veteran's scrap book. And maybe enough to start a second volume...
...Beaconsfield, Quebec native thought he might be able to get away with tripping first, and then he tried roughing, and finally he concluded that interference...
...making. In Canada the commitment to native self-determination followed another major step: the creation of a self-governing entity called Nunavut out of the vast Northwest Territories, effectively turning a fifth of Canada's 4 million-sq.- mi. territory over to 17,500 Inuit. In the province of Quebec, persistent agitation by 10,000 Inuit and Cree Indians against the second phase of an $11 billion hydroelectric project at James Bay, which would flood thousands more acres of Indian and Inuit lands, has placed the enterprise's future in doubt...