The mood in Quebec (excerpt from _Financial Post_ article)
FROSTY DEERE (frosty.deere@igloo.magicnet.com)
06 Oct 96 17:09:51 -0500
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Reprinted from The Financial Post
August, 1996, by Diane Francis
HEADLINE
SEPARATION WOULD BE "TOTALLY UNACCEPETABLE" TO QUEBEC MOHAWKS.
Mohawk warriors will take up arms to defend themselves against a separtists
if they ever attempt to take Quebec out of Canada.
I met with Mohawk Chief Billy Two-Rivers on the Mohawk reserve adjacent to
Montreal. He did not mince words.
"I don't think separation will happen, but if it did it would totally
unacceptable and wouldn't include our territory," he said. "We will expect
Canada to defend our relationship."
"Just as Quebec invoked the War Measures Act during the Oka criss to get the
army involved, we certainly expect Ottawa to come to our aid in the light of
a revolutionary act such as separation," he said.
The Cree made a complelling legal argument that they have a right to
self-determination and a right to remain within Canada if secession were
attempted...