The Bay de Chaleur eventually won its bid to join their co-linguists. Despite invitations, most Acadians told Quebec to put their invitations in "places that are not mentioned in church."
After much posturing and fanciful speeches, English-speaking residents of West Island Montreal traded places with franco-phone Ontarians.
All the French-speaking civil servants in Ottawa applied for jobs in Hull. Most of them were forced to "seek employment in other industries."
After an early invasion by the 10th Mountain Division, Quebec re-negotiated free-passage of the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The 10th Mountain Division went home by the end of the year.
After an invasion of James Bay - by the United States Marine Corps - Hydro-Quebec re-negotiated their debts with a variety of New York City-based banks. Meanwhile, Cree and Inuit natives petitioned Ottawa to remain Canadian citizens. Desperate for revenues from Northern Quebec diamond mines, Ottawa issued Canadian passports to thousands of First Nations members. Air Creebec suspended scheduled flights to Montreal, but added extra flights to Manitoba.
Rather than demand re-payment of their share of the national debt, Canada simply imposed punishing export tariffs on goods shipped west out of Quebec. Quebec exports to Great Lakes states slumped.
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