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...again-off-again stalemate began in early July when Quebec police raided a four-month-old blockade the Indians had erected at Kanesatake. The Mohawks were protesting a proposed expansion of a local golf course into what they regard as ancestral land. In the ensuing gunfight, a police officer was killed. The same day, on the other side of the St. Lawrence River, the Kahnawake Mohawks showed their solidarity with the Kanesatakes by blockading the Mercier Bridge...
...crisis dragged on, skirmishes erupted sporadically between Indians and police. Two weeks ago, Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa replaced the police with army troops. After that, all but a few hundred of Kanesatake's 1,500 residents left the reserve for safer ground...
Canada's military was also in demand last week, but not in the Saudi desert. Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa called for federal troops to man barricades at two Mohawk reserves in Quebec, where natives and police have been locked in an armed standoff for nearly a month. While the soldiers stand ready, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney hopes Alan Gold, a Quebec judge and experienced mediator, can negotiate an end to the impasse...
...secessionists in Quebec seem to have this idea in the back of their mind. They want not total independence but what they call "sovereignty- association." They want a sovereign Quebec with its own flag and army, but they then want immediate reassociation with the rest of Canada. They even envision keeping the Canadian dollar. (Whether the rest of Canada will take kindly to Quebec tearing up the flag while retaining its economic privileges is quite another matter...