‘Vive le Québec libre’ is now acceptable in Quebec

It is a sign of the intellectual vacuity of the independence movement that a terrorist slogan is now acceptable in defaming one of the most admired countries in the world.
Quebec’s leaders need to condemn the use of the terrorist slogan that once accompanied statements by the Front de libération du Québec, writes Andrew Caddell.

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—The first time I saw the phrase “Vive le Québec libre” was in the early 1960s as graffiti in Montreal. It was the rallying cry of the independence group, the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale, or RIN. 

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