Chrétien agrees there was a real possibility a Yes vote would have terminated his political career

He does not rule out that he could have resigned after a referendum defeat, but not right away and possibly not unless he was under great pressure to do so.

Chantal Hébert and Jean Lapierre are shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing for The Morning After: The 1995 Quebec Referendum And The Day That Almost Was, published by Knopf Canada. The Shaughnessy Cohen Prize is administered by the Writers’ Trust...

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