[LeoCasey at aol.com]

Chris Burford writes:
> Consider the situation of Canada, nearer to most LBO-talk subscribers than 
> the Balkans. There has been a substantial loss of anglophone inhabitants of 
> Quebec over the last 20 years. No doubt through a mixture of reasons, 
> economic, emotional etc. Some with a perceived sense of discrimination 
> against them, some with just a sense of discomfort, a few no doubt, after 
> some ugly conflict in which they feel their civil rights were severely 
> abused. No doubt some young men got killed in gang warfare as they always 
> do.
> 
> Now not all parts of Quebec province are francophone. Perhaps, to be 
> devil's advocate, the problem could be solved by shaving off the 
> 

And then what happens to the Francophone communities/sections of Ontario and 
the Maritimes? Remember also that these communities are not necessarily 
geographically contiguous to each other. You are back to your original 
dilemma, and to the fact that no matter what the geographical unit, some 
community will be in the minority, and must have its rights guaranteed by the 
state.

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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