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Article: To save money, Quebec bids Boston adieu
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 20, 1996
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MONTREAL -- Yielding to fiscal realities at home, Quebec is
ruefully lowering its profile abroad, hauling down the fleur-de-lys
over most of its diplomatic missions -- including its 27-year-old
office in Boston, which will be shuttered April 30.
The closure of 16 of Quebec's 22 foreign delegations is a blow to
the province's longtime ambition to be recognized as an entity apart
from Canada.
For more than a quarter-century, the province -- proud to be the
only bastion of French language and culture in North America -- has
deployed envoys around the world in the manner of an independent
country, seeking, in part, to win international support for its quest
for nationhood.
That dream is being ...