Today in our Columnist section, Paul Jackson continues his exploration of what to do with Quebec, and how to deal with it when it inevitably separates.
Here’s a snippet:
Finally, I’ve thrown in the towel in the exhausting fight to keep Quebec in Confederation.
There appear to be three classes of thought on the issue: (A) Keep tossing billions of dollars at Quebec in order to keep it in Confederation; (B) Let the French-Canadians go if they so want, but let’s do so with rancour and hold them to their share of the $500 billion federal debt; (C) Let history take its obvious course, and let Quebec go, but let’s still remain friends, though with no special concessions or final payoffs on some mysterious debt.
Put me in the third category—and treat former Bloc Quebecois leader Lucien Bouchard’s demand that when Quebec leaves it will have to be compensated for the loss of such national assets as Banff and Jasper national parks with the contempt it deserves. Or maybe English Canada would need to be compensated for the loss of the aforementioned Quebec City, the Gaspe and the Laurentians.
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