Don't piss on Clinton too heavily. Being from the ONLY officially bilingual province in Canada, coming from Irish and French stock, and being a reasonable person, I can understand Clinton's view of the Quebecois Nazis. Slightly less than 50% of PQers would separate from Canada based upon the idea of "distinct society", quite literally a racist ideology. The fact that they can't tolerate a slightly more than 50% minority and attempt to assimilate it or drive it out of PQ with the sign laws and forced "French only" schooling for those who cannot prove that English is their "first" language, is embarrassing to the majority of Candians, to say the least.

This is a VERY touchy subject to many Canadians and even more complex. It would take volumes to discuss all the aspects of the situation, but I believe that today it is more economically driven by those in power because those who could separate PQ would stand to become vastly rich in the development and sale of natural resouces to New England, especially water and power.

Clinton... even though PQ signed an agreement upon joining Confederation saying withdrawl from the federation would be accompanied by the return to Canada of the territories granted in that agreement, the Quebecois have stated that they would respond to any attempt to redraw PQ's borders with force. Now, Pierre called their bluff in 1973 when he rolled troops through the streets of Montreal and Quebec City, but I wonder if anyone has the balls to lock and load today ?