We were discussing how this would affect the First Nations, wonder what Marois thinks of this?
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03...m-grand-chief/
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Leaders from Mohawk communities near Montreal say they will likely declare their own independence if a re-elected Parti Québécois succeeds in winning a third sovereignty referendum. “We’d never be part of Quebec or cede out of Canada because we don’t believe we are Canadians to begin with. Our ties are to the land,” said Grand Chief Michael Delisle of Kahnawake, which counts about 8,000 Mohawks. “I would take a wild guess and I’m sure I’d be right my community would absolutely turn down any sovereignty movement by the provincial government.”
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“I would advise our council and community to hold our own vote in order to determine whether we would stay within the borders of Quebec or separate ourselves,” said Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Grand Chief Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell in a press release Tuesday. “With the potential threat of this region’s culture and language becoming distinctly French, we must concern ourselves with the reality that there is not even 1% of the Akwesasne population that speaks the French language.”
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The occupants of northern Quebec are almost entirely First Nations and Inuit. Cree and Inuit in northern Quebec had previously raised concerns relating to a potential separation during the 1995 referendum.
“Quebec can decide whatever it wants for itself but as far as the land is concerned to us there are clear arguments,” said Assembly of First Nations regional chief for Quebec and Labrador, Ghislain Picard. “Quebec can decide the fate of its people for itself, but they certainly cannot decide our fate as First Nations people,”
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