Word: quebecs
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...whatever is possible through preachment, aid and sanctions to encourage the spread of democracy. The most destructive ethnic explosions usually have occurred under repressive regimes. In contrast, secession movements in Quebec and Scotland have generally concentrated on peaceful persuasion. Democratic Canada and Britain have given Quebecois and Scots nonviolent ways in which to voice their angers and aspirations...
...that the citizens of Quebec are one people. But the Cree and other native peoples in the north of Quebec say they too are separate societies deserving of their own nation...
...Quebec government declared these people -- the Cree, the Mohawk, the Huron, the Algonquin and others -- distinct nations, and offered them a path to self-government within Quebec's boundaries. But if you think that 20,000 Cree and Inuit are going to leave Quebec and take two-thirds of its territory...
...would a free Quebec deal with the mix of English and French...
...Well, we have been committed since the notorious -- some would say -- bill of 1977 ((declaring French to be Quebec's official language)) to set up a society that functions in French. Does that mean Quebecois should not learn English? By God, I'll boot the rear end of anyone who can't speak English. In our day and times, a small people like us must speak English...