according to the poll you cited support independence.
There is a difference. SA means that they would still be in a health care,
economic and tax union. In other words they want all the benefits of being
in Canada without any of the costs.
Additionally I grew up in the largest french speaking region outside of
Quebec. There is a very strong bias against franco-Manitobans in Quebec. In
my experience I found that many francophones in Quebec are insular and
rather biased against all but their own group. Many have no problem with
what Parizeau and Michaud advocate.
larry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2004 9:28 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Nice people....
>
>
> I am not sure what you think may statement is. I am one of
> those inbetween people myself. My point is that 47% support
> sovereignty, which to me means Quebec as a separate country.
> The numbers drop into the 20s for the English-speaking
> population, which is only to be expected. The numbers also
> drop when you stipulate that there is to be no economic
> partnership, which is also only to be expected. I am not
> aware of ANY good model for how this would work. Despite the
> history, I think the population of Quebec is simply
> pragmatic, and sees that geography alone requires some sort
> of relationship, not to mention the overlapping language
> groups like the French-speaking in the Ottawa valley and the
> English speakers on the south bank of the St Laurent. And
> Montreal, of course.
>
> Dana
>
>
> >Dana,
> >
> >28 to 47 percent of the francophone population do not
> exactly support
> >your statement. To quote from the article you cited in the Globe and
> >Mail:
> >--
> >"Since the 1995 referendum, support for sovereignty has
> always hovered
> >around 40 per cent to 42 per cent," said Jean-Marc Léger,
> president of Leger
> >Marketing. "Today, support has increased to 47 per cent and
> it is directly
> >related to the level of dissatisfaction towards the Charest
> government."
> >
> >With a federal election only a few months away, the poll
> also sends a
> >signal to Ottawa that separatism is not dead and that Quebeckers,
> >especially francophones, continue to weigh their options on
> what Prime
> >Minister Paul Martin will offer.
> >
> >The poll conducted on behalf of The Globe and Mail, Le Devoir and
> >Montreal radio station CKAC showed that the majority of
> francophones --
> >53 per cent
> >-- support sovereignty while 75 per cent of non-francophones
> oppose it.
> >
> >But support for sovereignty remains soft, Mr. Léger said.
> When voters
> >were asked whether they would back sovereignty without an offer of
> >political and economic partnership with the rest of Canada, support
> >drops to 28 per cent.
> >
> >"What this shows is that when Quebeckers are confronted with two
> >radical options, sovereignty or status-quo federalism, we
> find that the
> >majority find themselves somewhere in between. They don't
> want outright
> >sovereignty and they are not happy that things remain the same," Mr.
> >Léger said.
> >--
> >
> >So in other words, without all the benefits of being with Canada,
> >without the soft separatism advocated by the PQ, support for
> >independece for Quebec among francophones drops to 28%. Its been my
> >impression that the Canadian government's policy has always
> been that
> >if Quebec separates, it will a sovrienty association that
> the PQ wants.
> >
> >So less than a third of people in Quebec support independence.
> >
> >Moreover my take on that poll is that its not support for
> separation,
> >but that people are simply pissed off at the provincial
> Liberal party.
> >
> >larry
> >
> >>
>
>
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