I want them to do the right thing. No doubt they want to do that too. I don't really know if people caught up in the Ottawa loop for so long can have the perspective. By contrast with the Ottawa rulers of the moment, when I first visited there in 1952, Jean Lesage was a cabinet minister, and a very important Quebecer in Ottawa. I think now for all of us to a degree.
Decentralization is the order of the day.
For the Chretiens, the Grays, and the Axworthys, like the Turners and McEachans and Lalondes before them though, nothing has changed. Ottawa still really is the centre of the universe, and always will be. It is hard to get outside of your own experience. But the world is moving on. At the publication date of this book, the 1995 Quebec referendum will be two or three months in the future, if the present schedule is to be believed.