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Article: Shaking Canada.(Lucien Bouchard leads Parti Quebecois separatist resurgence in polls)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- October 21, 1995
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COULD Canada really be near to breaking up after all? Quebeckers will vote on October 30th whether or not their province should declare itself sovereign--ie, independent. For weeks, nearly every commentator had agreed that the separatists would lose, if not by the crushing 40-60 vote that defeated a similar referendum on "sovereignty-association" in 1980. Now, suddenly, the outcome looks too close to call.
The reason is a change of leadership on the separatist side. Until last week, the Yes campaign had been headed by Quebec's premier, Jacques Parizeau. He is at heart an economics professor, and had run a ponderous campaign, with many fizzling stratagems, since his ...