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Article: And now? Canada.(Quebec's separatist movement regroups following narrow election defeat)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 11, 1995
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FEDERALISTS and separatists were both still licking their wounds this week, after the knife-edge result of the Quebec referendum on October 30th. And neither side knows where to go from here.
For the moment, it is the separatists--defeated only by one percentage point, but still defeated--who are in more obvious disarray. Having lost, Jacques Parizeau, the province's Parti Quebecois premier, brought the roof down on himself on referendum night: appalling many even of his own supporters, he blurted out on television that it was "the ethnic vote" that had cost them victory. Next day, doubly battered, he announced he would retire before the end of ...