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    Tuesday, August 16, 2005

    Vive le Canada Libre!

    ik - To Les Québécois. The most privileged "dominated" "people" in human history.

    What was said:

    The following are translated excerpts from La manière nègre.
    Michaëlle Jean: There are three choices when it comes to independence. One choice . . .
    Paul Chamberland, poet and sovereigntist: (Surprised) Three choices?
    Ms. Jean: Yes! There is the painful choice, which was Haiti's, as I was saying before . . . there is Martinique, for which [the choice] is compromise, and Quebec, where it's on hold.
    Group of well-known Quebec nationalists along with Haitian-born Quebeckers such as Ms. Jean and novelist Dany Laferrière:
    Mr. Chamberland (raising a glass of wine for a toast): To independence! To independence!
    Yves Préfontaine: To independence!
    Several toast poet and politician Aimé Césaire, the Martinique-born subject of the documentary.
    Mr. Laferrière: To people without adjectives!
    Mr. Chamberland: Hear, hear!
    Mr. Laferrière: To dominated people!
    Mr. Chamberland: Hear, hear!
    Ms. Jean: No more dominated people!

    ik - Ok. I'm angry now. More Quebecer versus Quebecer. If anyone is on hold, it's Canada.

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