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...really scared that Canada was not going to exist after tonight," said Negin, a Canadian citizen who did not vote in the referendum. "Quebec has sent its message--now it's time to rebuild...
Jaylone Lee '97, a Quebec resident who voted "No" in the referendum, said rebuilding may be easier said than done...
With a voter turn-out of more than 92 percent, the predominantly French-speaking province of Quebec voted yesterday 50.6 percent against giving its government a mandate to negotiate sovereignty from the rest of Canada...
Many of those at the event, which was co-sponsored by the Harvard Canada Seminar, the Quebec Delegation in New England and the graduate and undergraduate Canadian Clubs, were less pleased by the result...
Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, seeming almost taken by surprise as the vote neared, finally made a dramatic unity speech on Friday. But it may be too little, too late. The spectacle of the Canadian people coming from all over the continent to plead with Quebec to stay in the union can be seen as a referendum on Chretien's failed leadership on one of his most fundamental responsibilities: preserving the nation. "Quebec is tired of being treated as if it was not to be taken seriously, as if it would never leave, no matter what," says TIME International editor...