Prime Minister Stephen Harper: The People Of Quebec

Quebec Dept: The people of Quebec voted for change, a pretty strong desire for change . . . at the same time, I think it was pretty clear they were denying any kind of a mandate to pursue the separation of Quebec or the division of the country, Harper said at Bloomberg s Canada-Asia Dialogue conference in Vancouver, according to CTV. It was the first time Harper spoke publicly about the outcome of the Quebec election. The PQ s victory is widely seen as the beginning of a new period of tensions between a sovereigntist Quebec leader and the federal government and the Parti Quebecois may have won the Quebec election Tuesday night, but voters did not give Pauline Marois s minority government the green light to pursue a separation from Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday. That's certainly how we interpret it, and that's how the government of Quebec will be forced to interpret it, one way or the other. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.