Quebec’s sovereignty issue is in deep freeze

The feds gave money to Quebec St-Jean-Baptiste celebrations for the first time this year and it barely caused a ripple.

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly, pictured last week, announced last month that Quebec would for the first time receive a share of the $2.4-million her government was spending on June 24 St-Jean-Baptiste festivities last weekend.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

June 28, 2017

MONTREAL—There was a time not so long ago when the very notion of a federal government funding some June 24 festivities in Quebec would have raised eyebrows on both sides of the federalist-sovereigntist divide. Ottawa has long contributed to the financing of St-Jean-Baptiste celebrations in the r...

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