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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Traditionally, Quebec's requests for federal withdrawal from certain fields have centred on areas of exclusive provincial jurisdiction in which the federal government had intruded through the use of its spending power.
It is worth noting that Quebec is not the only provincial government to use special funds to transfer revenues from one year to the next – in fact, about half the provinces carry out similar activities.
Quebec was often looked to as the model of a province in which producers have been able successfully to lobby both the provincial and federal Governments for a wide range of supports for agriculture.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Quebec prosecutors are threatening to quit a special eight-member team set up by the provincial government to prosecute protesters arrested at the Summit of the Americas this month.
Quebec's Solidarity Fund The idea of labour-sponsored mutual funds had its origins, ironically, in a government attack on public-sector wages.
In Quebec, the Cree have succeeded in forcing major changes in the provincial government's plans for hydropower dams on the rivers flowing into James Bay.
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John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant
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Quebec's governments have been complaining forever that they have no way to control federal intervention in their exclusive jurisdictions.
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Craig Leveaux,
Blogger
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Quebec's government is proud of the money it's pouring into education , but representatives of the Liberal party say that there should be even more money for education.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Because Quebec's declaration of independence would have no meaning under Canadian law, the federal government would have the option of flatly refusing to recognize a unilateral declaration of independence until local referenda had been conducted.
Quebec separatism and western alienation should cause the federal government to rethink the whole confederation issue.
The provincial governments of BC and Quebec have already approved the dispensing of emergency contraception by pharmacists.
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