RCMP

Vote Dept: But we knew this day was important, that tonight's vote was the culmination of months of political discussion among the grown-ups. To us kids it represented many months of boring yet occasionally tension-filled talk that seemed to divide people. Even families, according to Montreal Gazette. Except that I knew I was firmly in the No camp. My father, an RCMP officer, was profoundly committed to Canada, Quebec included. So I was taken aback by the Yes responses I got at those lockers. While a No produced an immediate sense of kinship with the responder, a Yes made me recoil incredulously. If No was the right answer, then Yes had to be wrong and i remember something vividly from the day of the 1980 referendum. I and other sixth-graders were at our lockers at our French school, going up to each other in speed-dating fashion to ask if our parents were voting Yes or No that night. We weren't hard-nosed interrogators; as 11-year-olds, the subject hardly held our interest. We heard of couples separating because of it. Talk of separation was causing separation. As children, we couldn't understand why grown-ups would do this to each other. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.