DBWI: 1995 Quebec Referendum Votes No

Anaxagoras

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IOTL, Quebec voted 54% to 46% in favor of independence in the referendum of 1995. What would have happened if, instead, the referendum had narrowly failed?
 

mowque

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Well clearly none of the 95 riots. Unless the pro-separate Quebecois would have been outraged? I'm still not exactly sure where the US is supposed to stand in relation to Quebec. I mean, another nation to the north just complicates trade matters. Still, they seem to support NATO and the War or Terror, somewhat even though French influence is always vying with American....
 
I doubt we'd have seen the balkanizing of Quebec, either, once those city/areas that didn't want to leave Canada voted to leave Quebec and the Quebecious movement couldn't do anything about it...

And Quebec wouldn't have been excluded from NAFTA. Everyone knows that Quebec government supports the Gore administration's, ahem, troubled nation-building endeavors in hopes that Washington will convince Canada to admit Quebec into NAFTA.
 

Anaxagoras

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I doubt we'd have seen the balkanizing of Quebec, either, once those city/areas that didn't want to leave Canada voted to leave Quebec and the Quebecious movement couldn't do anything about it...

Isn't this still under discussion in the Canadian courts? Obviously, Montreal is behaving as though it is still part of Canada, but Quebec has not officially recognized this, yes?

And Quebec wouldn't have been excluded from NAFTA. Everyone knows that Quebec government supports the Gore administration's, ahem, troubled nation-building endeavors in hopes that Washington will convince Canada to admit Quebec into NAFTA.

I hear that France is pushing to raise tariffs on Canadian exports to the EU unless Canada drops its objections to Quebec joining NAFTA. It will be interesting to see how that turns out.

As for the Afghanistan issue, it was touching to read the newspaper accounts of how the Quebecois battalion came to the aid of that Canadian company which had been ambushed by the Taliban.
 
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