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Let Quebec separate from 1

Canada without bloodshed

Dear Editor:

While most Canadians are try-
ing desperately to find a com-
promise iz the Quebec problem, it
would seem Noel Wright is pro-
moting an armed intervention to
stop Quebec from getting too
good a deal.

I would like to know what ratio
of young soldiers’ lives per acre
you would see as acceptable,
Noel?

There are two things that re-
main out of Ottawa’s control — if
Quebec wishes to leave Con-
federation, they eventually will,
and no amount of human sacrific-
ing is going to change that.

Secondly, these people will
always live right next door, and so
it will always be in our own best
interests to get along with them.

Canada has an obligation only

to the native people of Quebec, to
ensure a satisfactory resolution to
all land claims prior to
separatism. We all, however, have
a duty to the young people of
both Quebec and Canada to nego-
tiate our outstanding grievances
without resorting to threats or vi-
olence.

Whether an independent Quebec
becomes a financial success re-
mains to be seen. I truly believe,
however, that future historians
will credit this separation as hav-
ing dealt the final blow to French
culture in North America.

tf Quebec can’t sre they are
getting a better shake from
Canada now, than they wil! from
a post-separation North America,
they are only deceiving themselves
and condemning their grandchil--
dren to the same loss of cultural

React with horror to
Collins’ suggestion

Dear Editor:

Thank you!

I had been convinced that Doug
Collins had lost his once acute
dexterity in slicing modern mores
with his finely honed satiric voice.
Any reader who has followed the
seemingly unassailable logic of the
greatest. Of English  satirists,
Jonathan Swift, would surely have
been happy to te as skilfully
ensnered with Doug’s use of that
same style in his Nov. 20 column.

It wasn't until I understood that
“fone’’ of ‘‘thousands’’ was the
proof upon which his argument
was based that I realized he had
hooked me — in exactly the same
way that Dr. Johnson hooked his
readers in ‘‘A Modest Proposal.”

Like Doug, Johnson also used
prevailing social conditions to flail
the consciences of his readers with
bitter irony. He argued that the
peasants cf. Ireland could afford
to feed themselves if they sold
their children as food for the rich.

Just as the wealthy English

reacted with horror to Dr.
Johnson’s ‘‘Modest Proposal’’
that they should feast on che
babies of the Irish, we should
teact with horror to Doug’s satiric
suggestion that Canadians should
close our doors (and our minds)
to the wealth of opportunities that
immigrants and refugees today br-
ing to our nation.

Heather Walker

West Vancouver

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identity the Cajun people of the
United States suffered.

if we must separate, let’s take
this opportunity to show the
world that it is possible to do so
without bloodshed.

Who knows, we may even give
Canadians a real reason to de
proud of their country again.
dohn Staynor
North Vancouver

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