What good can come from a discussion with Quebec about the Constitution when we are not permitted to be honest?

Rene Levesque refused to sign the Constitution, because during negotiations, which initially had gone well, the nine English primers spent the night talking and deliberating amongst themselves. Levesque was in his room getting drunk with his staff. He was an alcoholic and could stay not sober, even for such important work. He assumed everybody else went to bed. Late the next morning when he showed up hung over, he found out the premiers had come to an agreement without him and was felt he had been betrayed. He called it the "Night of the Long Knives” and we are still dealing with the fallout. He believed then that everything should stop and wait for him, and Quebec today still has the same sense of entitlement.

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