As the man who crafted the Clarity Act which now governs the manner in which the government of Canada has to deal with the framing of a question for a referendum on the independence of Quebec put it, the law of the land cannot be wished away:  |
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“I think they tried to be ambiguous to please their nationalist wing without repudiating the Clarity Act,” Liberal MP Stéphane Dion, who shepherded the Clarity Act through the legislative process when he was intergovernmental affairs minister under then prime minister Jean Chrétien, told the Star in a recent interview.
“They will try to please everyone as usual, but it’s the law of the land and no declaration — as ambiguous as it may be — of a politician may remove from Quebecers the right to stay in Canada
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