Duccepe was outraged, that he had been upstaged by the PM. That his clever motion that was neither for federalism or seperatism was now reformulated to be a federalist motion. And by the fact that the PM had the audacity to lecture him on how it was not the place of parliament to decide Quebec's fate, but since Mr. Duceppe had brought it up he would be glad to address it.
And Jack Layton was far from non-partisan, getting his digs in reminding the house that Quebec is a social democratic society, but that had not always been the case. It once was dominated by the right wing dictatorship of Maurice Duplessis not unlike the politics of the current Conservative government. That Quebecoise would feel most at home in a Social Democratic Canada.
It was a 'historic moment' for Quebec and Canada. And in the making of a Prime Minister.
Of course this had nothing to do with it. Conservatives Support Slips – Most in Quebec
http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2006/11/four-little-words.html
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Now the separatistes AND Canadians are p...d off.
The separatistes because of the restricting amendmend, and Cnadians because it is another crack in the Canadian Federation.
Perhaps this IS Canadian politics....keep both sides equally dissatisfied.
Is this statement supposed to be a joke?
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Brett Mann
In other words, all it takes is for the Quebec legislature to define Quebecker to make the province a "nation" in the eyes of Parliament and then to argue that since it relates to a geographical area it has the right to act as a state.
In fact, Harper has argued in the past for provincial "sovereignty" and even was willing to give Quebec the status of "state" within UNESCO.
I don't see this as clarifying the issue in any way other than to give the separatists a "hand up." It really has muddied the issue.
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