VANCOUVER : Keeping Canada Whole
About 200 politicians, academics, and other Canadians will meet in the provincial capital of British Columbia this weekend for the last in a series of government-sponsored talks on how to keep their country together.
Whatever consensus emerges in Vancouver this weekend is to be considered by Parliament, which is to try to craft a new Canadian constitutional order this spring. If Parliament’s package is attractive enough, it is hoped that French-speaking Quebec, which has never ratified the constitution, will give up its plan for a potentially nation-splitting referendum on sovereignty next fall.
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