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"From the Referendum of 1980 to the Canada of 2020"
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"From the Referendum of 1980 to the Canada of 2020"
Notes for an address by the
President of the Privy Council and
Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
the Honourable Stéphane Dion
before the
Association for Canadian Studies
Montreal, Quebec
May 19, 2000
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"A real fraud!" [Translation] We often heard this accurate denunciation of the convoluted
question that was put to voters during the 1995 referendum.
But I’ve actually just quoted
what the leader of the No side in the 1980 referendum, Mr.
Claude Ryan, had to say
about the referendum question that was asked in that campaign (quoted in
Maurice Lamontagne, La réponse au Livre blanc du PQ, 1980, p.
86).
"Misleading and
dishonest "[Translation]; "a camouflage, designed to inflate support for the Yes
side," [Translation] he
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