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Article: Quebec's separation movement: it brought Canadian unity closer.(Viewpoint essay)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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STRANGELY, when one thinks of the separation movement in Canada's province of Quebec, the thoughts immediately focus on the disaster Canada would have faced had Quebec gone its own way. No one would ever have thought in their wildest dreams that the separation movement would bring Canadians together. Yet, this is precisely what happened after the steam ran out of the separation movement's plan to make Quebec a separate nation.
Even though for centuries there has been some misunderstanding between English Canadians and French Canadians (since the 1760s when the British acquired Canada from the French), it was only in the latter part of the twentieth century that ...