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James Richard Cross is still alive and underment no physocal mistreateatment from the FLQ. What is your point anyway.

« Settled---Quebec is a province. » and the Québécois form a nation which forms the vast majority of the population of said province. And the federal Dominion of Canada is a country, but it is not a nation.

« the first nations had their own referendum » True. But that was 15 years ago. Had you been following the news, you should know that many things have changed since in the relations betwwen the Québec governement and the First Nations. Look up "La Paix des Braves".

Duceppe is not at all putting any emphasis on a referendum, but on the failure of thé Meech Lake accord, a las chance to terminate Quebec's indépendance mouvement.

According to this definition, there is no such thing as Jewish nation, nor a Kurd nation.

Law 101 is much less racist that the one proposed for Ontorio on this page.

Why not just copy Québec's Law 101?

In Québec, now general practitioners support euthanasia too. Link: Euthanasie Québec, omnipraticiens

Not only is it time to discuss it seriously, but it is also time to legalize at least euthanesia and assisted suicide in certain, very clearly defined situations. And, of course, it must always be with the express desire and consent of the "victim". It is more dignified than seeing terminally ill people dying with a plastic bag over their head. When the time comes, I definitely want to have a choice.

Sorry, but I could not find a way to delete the emoticon which has no business there or anywhere else in the rest of my posting;

The information I have is that the designs of the stone wals of the fortification were made by Gaspard Chaussegros de Léry around 1745 and completed around 1752-5. After 13 sept. 1759, the Brits under Townshend did not fire a single canon shot at it because a) he had too few large canons (the two brought by Wolfe were field canon, which could do, using grapeshot. do human damage, but even with full balls (6 pounders) would barely affect a fortification, and the batteries intended to receive the canons were not finished when on 17 sept. 1759, Québec"s governor De Ramezay, made a surprise offer of capitulation, which was accepted in spite that its main demands were barely acceptable by the Brits. After tje capitulation of 1759. then the one of 1760, and the Treaty of Paris of 1763, the Brits made a few improvements and changes to the fortification, but as far as I know nothing of major importance . It would not have been worth it, considering they had no serious reason to do so and spend a lot of money that was better spent on preventing a separatist revolution in their original 13 British colonies in America, which started brewing as early as 1763. in which England conceded that the colony of Canada, now renamed province of Québec, as a catholic "papist" colony. It was made worse by the royal proclamation which, among other things, gave, as promised, the Indians the control of the Ohio and the Mississipi valleys, which was what the colonials wanted in the first place and had fought for, now all for naught. English money was more needed to reinforce its army in the 13 colonies than to make improved fortifications for Québec, the city. As for Lord Dufferin's role, not only do I entirely agree, but just about everybody in Québec, the city and the province, is still grateful to him. He was a visionary man, who at a time when tourism was a new enterprise, a consequence of the growing train industry. he made excellent previsions of what would interest tourists at least a century later. He cannot, and is not portrayed in Québec as a "big bad english", quite the contrary. I would appreciate any information you could give me which could update this post.

I live in the province of Québec. And I have no idea as to how these federal millions are spent, as there are practically no celebration of Dominion Day to speak of. Anyone has an answer?

Time to put to rest the myth that English is a universal language.

Debate over; on the noon news on Radio-Canada, I saw an interview with the director of the National Battlefield Commission announce that the reconstitution was cancelled. Radio-Canada

Update, at 9:41 PM PLQ: 63 PQ: 54 ADQ: 7

As of 9;10 pm PLC; 67 PQ: 50 ADQ: 7

Thanks for giving an english text. I don't think this is an immediate appeal for civil war. But I'm a bit worried when "gun owners" are asked to gather for a cause, however inoffensive the cause be at first, because it could escalate in actually using guns. Or at least a few sympathisers might think so. And in a tense political climate, as what we are living now, one assassination attempt could be enough to trigger a civil war. I don't see a civil war on the horizon now. But seeing how tense it is, one better thread carefully. And I agree; it should be fought with pens.

Civil war? When the question was first raised, I thought not, but then today I read this:Link here.

Civil war? Who woud be fighting against who?

Harper has lost Québec. Too much like Duplessis. Can he win a majority without Québec?

references, please. To be more precise: 1. When did the SCC judge that the whole law was unconstitutional. (I know that there are many judgements that declared specific sections unconstitutional, and that the law was amended to comply. But they did not invallidate the whole law) 2. When was the last time that the Québec government renew the use of the notwithstanding clause. This is important because, if I am not mistaken, when using this clause, it is valid only for five years, at which time it has to be renewed or the law abandonned and cancelled. Thanks in advance.

Statistics about homicide rates are somewhat misleading. Thirty years ago, a serious wound would be deadly because medical techniques were not as evolved as today. The same wound today would not be as lethal. A fairer comparison would require grouping together both homicides and attempted homicides.

On that point, at least, we agree.

How wide is the corridor that the U.S. has carved up in canadian territory to join Alaska to is larger territory to the south of Canada? That would be a guide to how wide a corridor the federal governement should carve out to link the Maritime provinces to Ontario.

The people in Québec do what they can for their country: Québec. The RoC is their conquerors's country, and they will help it an gunpoint only. Remember, you never get a second chance to make a good first impression. English-Canada blew it, litteraly, 249 ago.