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Article: Should the Northwest Territories take over Northern Quebec?
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- March 1, 1998
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BERNARD W. FUNSTON
Counsel for the Minister of Justice of the Northwest Territories
The assertion that an independent Quebec could lay claim to a large slice of the Northwest Territories, extending its borders all the way to the North Pole, is refuted. It is said to be just as logical to assert that the Northwest Territories could annex Northern Quebec. From argument before the Supreme Court of Canada, February 16, 1998. Edited for publication.
I would point to the fact that the questions [in the reference to the Court] refer to Quebec. They do not refer to the Province of Quebec. We believe it is relevant to ask what the corpus of the ...