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Quebec: Still Secession? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Ben Barber |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 2,246 Words, 17,274 Characters |
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The momentum for secession remains enormous--and is building. For example, when English-speaking alumni of Montreal's Mount Royal High School class of 1975 hold reunions, they take place hundreds of miles away in Toronto. That's because so many of the graduates have joined an Anglo exodus out of Montreal since the province of Quebec became a hotbed of separatism and French pride in the late 1960s.vbcrlf Over 100,000 English speakers have emigrated from the province in the quarter-century since.vbcrlf Now, Mount Royal High School has become a French-language school. Immigrants to Quebec from other provinces or abroad must place their children in French schools under recent laws designed to protect ...
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... those who can neither read nor write who will decide this issue."vbcrlf "I can fly to Vancouver tomorrow, stay there, open a business, vote, go on the dole, be obnoxious, and no one can tell me to go home," said Paré of L'Actualité. In a couple of years, unless something changes drastically in Canada's politics, that may no longer be the case. vbcrlf
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