When Meech Lake was first sprung upon the public, support for sovereignty was at historic lows. Aside from the slippery rewriting of the province’s “historic demands,” there is also the slippery rewriting of the phrase itself. The Harper-era resolution was specifically worded to say, not Quebec, but “the Québécois,” meaning the province’s French-speaking majority. The new demand is for constitutional recognition of Quebec as a nation — less sociological fact, more nation-state. The same debates, the same fallacies, the same doubletalk, and all of it just as pointless and unnecessary as ever.

Source: National Post June 03, 2017 00:11 UTC