A tycoon plans for the future:
“We don’t have 25 years ahead of us to achieve [sovereignty],” Pierre Karl Péladeau said in March, stating the obvious during the home stretch of an eight-month Parti Québécois leadership race he was destined to win. He later retracted this disconcerting subsequent statement under intense political pressure: “With demographics, with immigration, we’re definitely losing one riding each year.”
It's nice to have the other side admit that. As we pull away from the train wreck that was the 1960s, Quebec nationalism can be viewed with dispassion. The existential crisis now past it appears not as a dramatic fight but as a long petulant whine. A boomer tantrum that will fade with their passing.
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