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Article: Quebecer Damages Separatist Cause With Remark on Low Province Birthrate
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- The Washington Post
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- October 18, 1995
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A week after taking the wheel of the faltering campaign to win the
Oct. 30 Quebec referendum on secession from Canada, separatist
firebrand Lucien Bouchard has driven it squarely into trouble.
At issue in the incident, for which Bouchard expressed regret
Monday night, was an inflammatory weekend reference to Quebec's low
fertility rates.
"Do you think it makes sense that we have so few children in
Quebec? We're one of the white races that has the least children.
That doesn't make sense," Bouchard said in a speech. "It means we
haven't resolved our family problems."
The statement quickly deepened the tensions surrounding women's
roles and French ethnicity in the restive province, whose people ...
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