Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people from you and we're different people because of you. Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered is the beast, if I can call it that, one is effected by every twitch and grunt. It should not therefore be expected that this kind of nation, this Canada, should project itself as a mirror image of the United States.
- Pierre Trudeau

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Jean Charest is so yesterday's Premier

There is a revolution going on in Quebec, right now.

The first flames of revolutionary zeal were seen in last night's provinical election results. A new, slightly right-of-centre, 'Separatist-Lite' party, the ADQ (Action Democratique du Quebec), has gone from being a small, independent third party to now becoming the official opposition. The Parti Quebecois, defender of the bastion of Quebec Separatism and advocate of a free and independent Quebec nation, has been relegated to third place. Jean Charest, the Liberal premier, almost lost his seat in the National Assembly. And the question of separatism in Canada and Quebec will never be the same again.
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