Month: January 2025

Oh Canada, whither goest thou? Shakespeare or Jon Stewart

TORONTO – It seems like only yesterday (January 1997) when Quebec’s Premier, Lucien Bouchard, a founding member of the Bloc Quebecois (also former Cabinet Minister in Brian Mulroney’s government) touched off a storm of intense debate about our National character when he mused that “Canada is not a real country”, therefore threats of impending disunity and other political consequences of discussing Quebec sovereignty were just so much scare-mongering (my words).