The Canadian Prime Minister Michael Ignatieff, described the creation of an independent Quebec as inevitable, in an interview with the BBC.
Commenting on the upcoming referendum over Scottish independence, Ignatieff said that regardless of the outcome the UK will change.
Ignatieff said,
"It’s a kind of way station — you stop there for a while,"
"But I think the logic, eventually, is independence. Full independence."
Asked whether he was talking about independence for both Quebec and Scotland, Ignatieff replied, "I think, eventually, that's where it goes."
He added,
"The problem here is we don’t have anything to say to each other anymore,"
"There’s a kind of contract of mutual indifference, which is very striking for someone of my generation."
"I can't think of this country without Quebec. Je parle francais. And when I think about being a Canadian, speaking French is part of it,"
"But that's not the way most English Canadians now think of their country. They might have done 30 or 40 years ago, when we thought we could live together in this strange hybrid country called Canada.
"Now effectively, we’re almost two separate countries."
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