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A non to secession? An election shakes Quebec
By Rob Gillies, Associated PressQUEBEC CITY — For all the stereotypes of Canada as a ho-hum, steady-as-she-goes sort of place,...
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SIGN IN | SUBSCRIBE | E-EDITION | ARCHIVES | MOBILEThursday, August 25, 2011 —
A non to secession? An election shakes Quebec
By Rob Gillies, Associated PressQUEBEC CITY — For all the stereotypes of Canada as a ho-hum, steady-as-she-goes sort of place, politics here can be a wild ride.
With virtually no warning from pollsters, voters have dealt Quebec s separatists a stunning humiliation and set off a debate about whether the French-Canadian province even needs a separatist movement in this globalized age.
The upheaval wrought by the May 2 parliamentary election is not unusual; in 1993 voters stripped the ruling conservatives down from 151 seats to just two in one of the biggest reversal
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