Prescience

"The worst thing we can do is act as if (separatism) is dead," Scott Reid, the Canadian Alliance's new inter-governmental affairs critic, observed." Each time people think the sovereignty movement is dead," a Liberal member of the Quebec legislature cautioned, "it shows itself to be very much alive." A hundred news stories carried the same warning. This was no time for complacency. Triumphalism was misplaced. Sovereignty is not dead; it's just resting.

- National Post, January 15, 2001, p. A15