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From: elf@dgp.toronto.edu (Eugene Fiume)
Subject: Re: Nationhood
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Date: Sun, 25 Dec 88 10:00:32 EST

In article <2063@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (pri=-10 Stuart Lynne) writes:
>
>They don't want us! 
>
>We don't want them!
>
>Seems like there would be a race to see whether they could seceed faster
>than we could kick them out :-)
>
>-- 
>Stuart.Lynne@wimsey.bc.ca {ubc-cs,uunet}!van-bc!sl     Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532

I hope you had intended smiley's at the end of each of the above
statements.  If so, they're not particularly funny, and if not, well,
it makes me sad to see that being Canadian (whatever it means) means so
little to you (or to Quebecois who may actually share the sentiments).

As depressing and annoying as the language issue currently is,
nationhood is measured in timescales that transcend little hills and
valleys like this.  In the nation that I understand Canada to be,
Quebec is exactly as important a part as any other socio-geographic
area in Canada you'd care to mention.  In the long run (i.e., in the
geologic time I referred to earlier), the fundamental split in Canada
that must be resolved is not primarily linguistic; it is over the
extent to which big dollars will be allowed to change our values.
There are some that argue that "Free Trade" is a back-door way for
Quebec to separate, but that's another issue.  I mean something more
basic and much less devious that we're all going to have to work out,
regardless of language.
-- 
Eugene Fiume
Dynamic Graphics Project
University of Toronto
elf@dgp.toronto.edu