It's because they know virtually nothing about it. ;-) Besides, they're in no danger of being taken over by Canada, so they don't get nervous every time Canada twitches. The same is not true of the USA. Everybody in the world gets nervous when the USA twitches.

I would prefer Dion to Harper, Dianavan. Definitely.

The Quebec issue, sadly, will never be solved by any constitutional accord...because it is an issue between 2 self-interested parties with not enough common ground or good will to come to a lasting agreement with one another. Thus, the best thing to do with it is not even bother talking about it at all, and get on with other more vital things that CAN successfully be done in this country. Ignatief raised the issue just to play party politics and put the Conservatives in a vulnerable spot. Harper responded by endorsing the "nation within a nation" idea in order to dodge the bullet that Ignatief fired, but he may end up sorry that he did. The whole country will now pay the consequences with a few more years of useless and divisive arguing over something that no one can or will ever find an acceptable answer to.

Big mistake! Ignatief should have kept his mouth shut. Gwynne Dyer wrote a great article about it, but I don't think it's posted on his website yet.