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...deeply than any election defeat. We have to swallow it his time." So said Quebec Premier René Lévesque last week, standing on the same platform in Montreal's Paul Sauvé arena that he had used to declare the upset election victory of his Parti Québecois in 1976. Greeted by 5,000 cheering supporters, Lévesque (pronounced Leh-vek) seemed close to tears as he acknowledged that voters in Canada's largest, predominantly French-speaking province had turned him down by 59.5% to 40.5%. They had voted non in a referendum that...
...vesque's real goal: to seek independent status for Quebec. In his first province-wide campaign since becoming Liberal leader two years ago, Ryan mounted an old-fashioned electoral drive of evening rallies and door-to-door canvassing, seeming to erase the social stigma attached to French-speaking Québecois who opposed the referendum. Said Ryan after the votes were counted: "I think we have rediscovered how very much we love this country. We are proud to be Quebeckers and at the same time proud to be Canadians." Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau also campaigned effectively against...
...vesque's Parti Québécois, it now appears, could lose the referendum. In three by-elections to the provincial Parliament two weeks ago, candidates were decisively defeated by Liberals, whose leader in Quebec, Claude Ryan, is an unbending opponent of separatism...
...Southam chain (the Ottawa Citizen and 13 other Canadian dailies). But over the past two decades, Toronto has gradually displaced Montreal as the nation's leading city. English-speaking Montrealers began moving out in even larger numbers after René Lévesque's secession-minded Parti Québecois won control of Quebec in 1976. For a while, the Star weathered that exodus well. But during the strike, circulation at the newly lively Gazette soared to roughly what the Star's had been before the dispute. By the time the Star resumed publication, its readership...
...straightforward question: Do you want Quebec to become independent? Instead, Levesque and his chief adviser, Claude Morin, have propounded a so-called hyphen strategy, in which the government will seek a "mandate to negotiate sovereignty-association" with Ottawa. Such a phrasing might make it possible for the Parti Québecois to appeal even to opponents of independence, since they would be asked merely to grant Levesque a vague authority to negotiate for unspecified new provincial powers. But it would fall far short of the Parti Québecois' avowed goal, "the accession to independence...