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La Separation?<br />
CFJ Students aim to unite our country<br />
Ednor's ~ole : After much media<br />
publ icity and world.....ide attenti on,<br />
The Partie Quebecois finall y held a<br />
referendum on the fate of Canada's<br />
francophoneprovince in October.<br />
' 1995. The resul ts were close. to say<br />
the leas t: 49,6'k of Quebec announced<br />
thai they wanted out of<br />
Ca nada. Alt hough the official<br />
victory was on the No side . it is safe<br />
to say thai the moral victory was<br />
won b) ' the separatists. A delegat ion<br />
of students from the College<br />
Francais aJarv is went to Momrealro<br />
lake part in a Canada wide rally to<br />
show Quebec that they have not bee n<br />
ignored.<br />
On October 30 1995. (he<br />
province of Quebec held a<br />
refere ndum asking its citize ns<br />
whether or not (hey wanted to<br />
become a sovereign country. There were numerous campaigns organized in all pan s of Canada to support the<br />
"Non" side. One of these projects was called "Signatures Referend um". a giant petition organized by<br />
O.$.S.A. (Ontario Secondary Schoo l Student Association). They sent petitions to Ontario High School s to be<br />
signed by interested stude nts. By signing the petiti on students were asking Quebec to remain a part of<br />
Canada.<br />
We, the student coun cil of Coll ege Francais a<strong>Jarvis</strong>. were concerned about the refe rendum . Upon rece iving<br />
this petition we went around the school and co llected as many signatures as we could. Then on October 26,<br />
1995 we went to Mon trea l along with other studen ts from Ontario high schools to hold a press conference to<br />
present the ove r 100.000 signatures collected to the "Non " side.<br />
In Montreal we were a very enthusiastic group. waving our Canadian and Quebec flags everywhere. Quebec<br />
was clearly divided . We did our best to convey<br />
our deep love for the province. October 26 will<br />
be a day we will neve r forger.<br />
The nation al ant hem became very importan t for<br />
us all that day. We sang both to and from Montreal.<br />
II was particularl y special on the way back.<br />
for we did not know if it was the last time we<br />
were singing our national anthem as a united<br />
country. We knew it would be a very close race<br />
on Referendum day. and we were relie ved by the<br />
results. We love Canada and we love Quebec.<br />
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