Canada: Will Victoria

Newly Sovereign Quebec Dept: There is today in Canada a dangerous line of argument that must be checked by all thinking citizens: It holds that Canada is somehow tired of Quebec and the Quebec question, and might therefore wish to expel Quebec from the Canadian federation if push comes to shove. The mirror image of this argument comes from the purs et durs in Quebec, who believe that a newly sovereign Quebec, in the aftermath of a winning referendum, could naturally negotiate, egal egal, with Canada for some species of peaceable and prosperous coexistence, according to The Star. Answer: If Quebec goes, who in the rest of today s Canada will agree to be governed from Ottawa? Will Victoria agree? Will St. John s? And, to be sure, will Calgary? Instead, a succession of unilateral declarations of independence is far more likely, with a hodge-podge of new political-constitutional unions and partnerships issuing from what will be a highly destabilizing, chaotic and protracted period of bartering by weak political units, shifting constituencies and even outside powers in order to arrive at a new post-Canadian legitimacy across our gigantic land mass and it takes a century and a half of political imagination, heroic toil and, to be sure, great geopolitical luck to build a country like Canada. It takes but a year or two of hubris, lassitude and ignorance for the whole thing to be lost. Both presumptions are pure sophistries. Why? Because Canada, as a recognizable geopolitical entity, will not exist period in the aftermath of the separation of Quebec. Why is this so? (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.