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Article: Quebec feels that itch, again. (independence movement)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 13, 1988
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IN THE month when other North Americans are watching out for groundhogs (whose reappearance after hibernation is supposed to show when spring will come), Quebeckers are wondering if they have spotted a phoenix in their province. Mr Jacques Parizeau, who has just rejoined the almost moribund Parti Quebecois (PQ), is devoting February to a fund-raising tour for what he hopes will be the renaissance of the Quebec independence movement.
Separatism collapsed in 1980 when Rene Levesque's provincial government failed, in a referendum, to get a mandate to negotiate a form of near-independence called "sovereignty-association". In the subsequent provincial election he won ...