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Paul Jacson`s an idiot.

You never reward the one who initiates the divorce.They`re the one who gets punished.

The xenophobes aka quebecers will never get northern Quebec,the natives won`t have any of that.The xenophobes won`t get the St.Lawrence seaway either.Canada and the USA won`t allow that.

So what`s left.A sliver of a country running along side the St.Lawrence and the gaspe coast.

Good riddance to these xenphobic racists. Visit Quebec ! ? Only if you like being treated like pond scum.This Orwellian place is spooky,with language police shasing people around if the english letters on a a store owners sign is too large.

*Jackson

*chasing

actually it is a control thing. The one who initiates the divorce is essentially claiming control. This forces the other party to react and "deal with it".

Essentially this author is saying Quebec wants a no fault divorce with custody of the hydroelectric dams paid for by the Canadian Federal Government.

If Quebec goes the damns should stay.

New Quebec was added to the province later and is mostly inhabited by Indians or Eskimos, so that could be a major problem--and it has a lot of resources so the Quebecois wouldn't want to leave without it. There is also an area just north of the New York line, the Eastern Townships, where a lot of people speak English, and might prefer to stay in Canada.

The Old City of Quebec is very nice. There's even a marker on one of the main streets in honor of the American Richard Montgomery, killed in the attack on Dec. 31, 1775 (namesake of a number of Montgomery Counties in the US). I didn't have any unpleasant encounters with the locals when I visited, but maybe I was just lucky.

Visit Quebec ! ? Only if you like being treated like pond scum.

I live near the border with PQ and have been there a few times. No real problems.

However it seems that every person I know from the US who has visited in the last few years has either had things stolen from them or almost stolen.

One pair of fellows who went up on a fishing trip stopped for a meal at a restaurant and came out to find their pickup camper shell broken into and emptied of a few thousand bucks worth of gear.

Another few friends were up snowmobiling and stoppped at a bar/restaurant. They were alerted by the owner to check on their snow machines as some guys were in the process of loading them on trailers. He had already called the cops.

When I go up, I pull into a chain link fence and barbed wire surrounded compound, and the gate is locked behind us.

It has gotten really bad since the gun laws came into effect up there and the crooks know you're unarmed.

I never leave my vehicle from my sight.

We used to go up quite often, but very seldom now.

On the other hand, the laws since 9-11 have also made it very hard for some folks I know in Quebec to conduct business in the USA.

One, who is in his 60s now and has been crossing the border to buy and sell (mostly buy) from American companies for over 30 years can no longer enter the US.

He had gotten into a fight when he was a teenager while visiting the US. Since that is on his record he is now barred form entering... All because of the Patriot act.

The fact that he is now a mature adult and has uneventfully conducted business and travelled all over the USA doesn't count.

It's a bad situation all around and I don't see any sign of a chance for any improvement.