At his peak i remember how much he resembled a British aristocrat.. all bluster and pomposity. He used to say how much he admired the Queen.
The real patriots of Quebec saw how their culture flourished in the Canadian mosaic. The defeatist and losers rejected all that.. and sold out to an absurd notion of 'Sovereignty Association' developed as a ploy by the Quebecois political class as a method to wrest all power from Canada well retaining all the benefits of citizenship.
Separation is a force that has exhausted itself.. undone by the beneficial and constructive logic of Confederation for all its communities.. and the cynical disingenuousness of the separatists.
Anyone remember how after that speech the slobbering drunk old fool then threatened a woman from Chile who was working the front desk @ the hotel where that crybaby party happened?
She ended up calling security on him-he made such a fool of himself that's why he resigned the morning after-for being a drunken bully in public.
He did not commit treason stupidity yes treason no. I did not care for the man
However my mother always said do not speak ill of the dead.
Jacques was doing what he thought would bring prominence to Quebec.
As proves to be the case in so many situations is cooler heads prevail.
The result is Canada is still Canada that is what counts here may he
now rest in peace another chapter closes in Canadian history
Before we trip over ourselves praising what a wonderful man he was, let's remember that he was an anti semitic, racist old coot who as premier, berated a black waiter in an elevator for stealing pure 'Quebecois' jobs.
An opportunist, and he was an enemy of Canada and all Canadians.