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'White races' and the Quebec referendum

· Socialist Outlook no. 93, November 11 1995 · 373 words

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strained. There are many reasons for this, including EngRECENT racist and sexist immigration policy, and, until very recent times, and the leader Lucien Bouchard -phone community and English sensating tow Quebec's in the Montreal area (and birth rate was one of the tion and marginalisation of Women were rightly outSu soicon ice of their "race".

But there is nothing to cheer me totals can be t likely to view each other with tempts to score points for the have in common. And they hathrough immigration legislaand powerful inside and outapplicants from the "white races" (and men), the federal dogma of a "united Canada". as champions of the "darker Pedone betree b Ou Quebec is not very different from other Western nations, And Quebec's non-FrancoWorld and indigenous peoCanadian nationalism are The period in Quebec hisis best known for freeing the Church and for modernising gence of a sovereignty moveespresse sectors (raa v ionists, women's groups, stuto forge a new, socially just, secular, multicultural "Quebedeeply rooted in Quebec sociThis aspect of the struggle fortunately, even ostensibly agressive croes in Engisa prompting many to oppose sverigety ot the gouno that Quebec's minorities need English-Canadian majority. living in Quebec, giving us the tragicomic spectacle of Engpeoples to secede from a sovtion want to remain part of Cant, ter sye ter Canada, their struggles for in Quebec is a recipe for disaslegitimate concerns of a small and orten, by pure and simple anti-French prejudice. democratic solution for NaWendy Savage, Bart's Guy's and Edgware campaigns. 11.00am to 4.00pm ULU, Malet St. London. WC1. DECEMBER Sat 2 & Sun 3 PAPER making course held by Stuart J Bullen Details The Drill Hall 0171 631 1353. Sun 3 MARCH to stop deportation of Raghbir Singh. Assemble 1.00pm at Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park, Lambeth Rd. March to rally at Trafalgar Square. Called by NUJ. Sun 3 Close of ERNEST MANDEL MEMORIAL FUND. Socialist Outlook readers and supporters plan to raise £3,000, as part of an international eftort. Please make your donation payable to 'Ernest Mandel Memorial Fund' and rush to us at PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU.

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