Did Canadian PM plan to deploy troops to Quebec in 1995?

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OTTAWA - Jean Chrétien was prepared to dismiss a narrow Yes vote in Quebec's 1995 sovereignty referendum while at the same time moving in troops to protect federal buildings, says a new biography of the prime minister.

"I don't want to be the last prime minister of Canada," Chrétien told his staff, author Lawrence Martin writes in Iron Man: The Defiant Reign of Jean Chrétien.

"I never thought of that ... I'll tell you a little secret you can put in your own book: In every election I was sure of winning, I wrote a little concession speech just in case. Because we're a lot more generous when we're certain of winning."

[SidDithers]

1. That was such a close vote...

I remember watching the results coming in, with the totals see-sawing back and forth between yes and no.

What a scary nite.

Sid

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2. Why do they want to secede?

Ethnocentrism or do they truly feel that their culture is under threat from the rest of Canada, which is English-speaking and mostly British?