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I MOVED TO MONTREAL to live in 1975. An old-stock francophone from Ottawa, I felt at home the moment I arrived. Despite being a stranger to the city—I spent hours walking up and down Saint Laurent Boulevard, the city’s dividing line between east and west, English and French, rich and poor—I knew this was where I belonged. I didn’t recognize...
Anyone who was old enough to vote on October 30, 1995, remembers these words spoken by Jacques Parizeau that evening. “It’s true that we were defeated, but by what? By money and ethnic votes.” According to the Quebec premier, immigrant votes and the considerable sums invested by the federal government were responsible for defeating the Yes side, which French-speaking Quebecers...
After years of wanting “in,” the West now wants out. Alberta, at least, has been pumping out that message at high volume. On April 29, the new leader of the province’s Republican Party, Cameron Davies, boasted that his election, coming on the heels of yet another Liberal victory in Ottawa, marked “the birthday of many new separatists in Alberta.” On...