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From: riehm@maccs.McMaster.CA (Carl Riehm)
Newsgroups: can.politics,can.francais
Subject: Re: Nationhood
Summary: One reason to stay together..
Message-ID: <1742@maccs.McMaster.CA>
Date: 24 Dec 88 03:01:31 GMT
References: <560@cavell.UUCP> <726@myrias.UUCP> <727@myrias.UUCP>
Reply-To: riehm@maccs.UUCP (Carl Riehm)
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Organization: McMaster U., Hamilton, Ont., Can.
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In article <727@myrias.UUCP> dre@myrias.UUCP (Duane Eitzen) writes:
>If trying to stuff Quebec and the rest of Canada in to a harmonous
>nation is so difficult and painfull (and unsuccessful after over
>one hundred years) why do we try?

Can anyone seriously think that Quebec could become independent without
a civil war of some kind?  It is a mistake for Canadians to think that we
are so dull or enlightened that we are incapable of bloodshed.  We are in
this together and we have to try to make it work if only because the
alternatives are even worse.