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...their lakes and summer cottages. National leaders are counseling calm, and Jean Chretien, the newly elected head of the opposition Liberal Party, suggests that Canadians focus their attention on the pennant races of the Montreal Expos and Toronto Blue Jays. Not everyone took the advice to cool it. Quebec City and several other towns and suburbs announced they were canceling festivities marking Canada Day, the national day, on Sunday...
Robert Bourassa, Quebec's premier, has a long record of opposition to separatism, but the abortive battle for the accord has diminished his faith in federalism. After the failure of Meech Lake, he served notice on Mulroney that , Quebec would no longer take part in constitutional conferences; instead, it will deal directly with the federal government in Ottawa. The leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, Jacques Parizeau, hopes to form a breakaway alliance with Bourassa's Liberal Party, but the premier's chief negotiator with Ottawa, Gil Remillard, still refers to his job as "maintaining federalism...
...province's future. He will include members of the National Assembly, labor, business and community leaders. Though it is too early to say for sure, he does not rule out the idea of a referendum on the commission's proposals. Next March a constitutional commission of his Quebec Liberal Party will complete an outline of the conditions under which Quebec will remain in Canada. In an interview with TIME last week, Bourassa expressed interest in the European Community, where jealously sovereign states like France and Britain are building a united economy and transnational institutions (including a Parliament) that will inevitably...
...dilemma in both countries has the same cause: the heritage of empire. The non-Russian Soviet republics were absorbed by expansionist rulers in centuries past and never assimilated. Quebec became a part of Canada when British troops led by Major General James Wolfe defeated France's Marquis de Montcalm on the Plains of Abraham, a cliff overlooking the St. Lawrence river outside Quebec City, in 1759. Though nationalism is almost an anachronism in a world where economics is driving nation-states into larger units, the centuries of thwarted emotions are now catching up with multiethnic federations like Canada...
...Canada the outcome may be, As Quebec goes, so goes the confederation. British Columbia's premier, William Vander Zalm, has already said his province will "seek a different type of confederation," modeled on what Quebec achieves. "We ought to be looking at what it is that might be negotiated for Quebec," he says, "and we should be negotiating on a parallel stream." Premier Grant Devine of Saskatchewan said last week his province too will need "more independence...