Rene Levesque Dept: For three years, that was the lament from the Meech Lake architects: So critical was their exercise in nation-building that Canada could not long endure without it, according to Globe And Mail. Other than the perfervid Jacques Parizeau, who haunts us like Banquo’s Ghost, few take independence seriously any more. Even the Parti Quecois is ambivalent about a third referendum when it returns to power in Quebec, which it surely will and by then, we were used to the fear-mongering. In 1981, Rene Levesque warned that patriating the Constitution without Quebec would have “incalculable consequences for Canada.” In 1988, as the accord began to unravel, Conservative senator Gerald Beaudoin declared: “C’est la fin du pays.” Twenty years later, we know that wasn’t so. Canada is still here and Quebec is still part of it. Independence is as likely for Quebec as winning the Stanley Cup is for the Toronto Maple Leafs. As
reported in the news.
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