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Article: Split would break Canada's heart faces for broken heart
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 29, 1995
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ONE OF the most telling posters being waved in the crowd of at
least 100,000 people, crammed into the centre of Montreal on Friday
for an unprecedented "Quebec, We Love You" rally, showed a map of
Canada with a large black hole in the area that should be Quebec
and in that hole was a bleeding heart.
The symbolism was clear. Not only will a separatist victory in
tomorrow's referendum rip the centre out of the world's largest
country, but for many Canadians in what is left of Canada, it will
have killed its soul.
As the Canadian Prime Minister, Jean Chretien, said in his
emotional television address to the nation last week, Quebec
separation would be the "the end of a dream" of a plural ...