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Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

June 25, 2025

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—It was June 1980, soon after the first Quebec referendum, in which I had been an organizer for the federalist “No” camp. I was standing in the Anglican cathedral in Quebec City, talking to a tourist from Toronto.

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