Quebec's Separatists Unite to Seek Vote on Splitting Canada
Mark Clayton, writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor
QUEBEC'S feuding separatists have struck an alliance that they hope will persuade enough "soft" nationalists to vote for independence from Canada in a referendum expected this fall.
In a deal slated to be signed yesterday in Quebec City, Jacques Parizeau who leads the separatist provincial Quebec Party (PQ), agreed to allow two other separatist parties a voice in negotiating a political-economic union with Canada should Quebeckers vote "yes" to separation.
Together with the PQ, the Quebec Bloc, led by Lucien Bouchard, and the Quebec Democratic Action (ADQ) of soft nationalists, led by Mario Dumont, hope to win a majority in the referendum.
A win would mean …
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Article title: Quebec's Separatists Unite to Seek Vote on Splitting Canada.
Contributors: Mark Clayton, writer of The Christian Science Monitor - Author.
Newspaper title: The Christian Science Monitor.
Publication date: June 13, 1995.
Page number: 6.
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