From David Mackenzie (historian from Wilfred Laurier Unv.) Globe & Mail, Thurs. 4 Sept, 1997

"Quebec's unwillingness to accept the internationally recognized legal decision of 1927 and the 1949 constitutional guarantee given to Newfoundland sets a bad precedent, especially as the government of Quebec insists that others must automatically and unconditionally respect the borders of an independant Quebec. Nevertheless, and not without some irony if not outright hpocrisy, Quebec continues to support the alteration of it's borders - provided it makes Quebec larger. And the premiers of Quebec continue to support the idea of partition - not of Quebec, but of Newfoundland and Labrador."

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