http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061123/ap_on_re_ca/canada_quebec_2
Prime Minister Stephen Harper stunned Parliament on Wednesday by introducing a motion recognizing the French-speaking province of Quebec as a nation within Canada — a moved aimed at pre-empting Quebec’s separatist party which intends to do the same.“The prime minister doesn’t want to lose us, so he will do everything to keep us,”