Quebec Elects Bouchard : Referendum Deferred February 1999

Summary: With the recent Quebec election, another chapter in Canada's constitutional saga was completed. Chronicling the constitutional history of this nation requires an understanding much like that necessitated by epic narratives in which the reader must try to remember how all the pieces fit together: the root causes of the conflicts, the extensive cultural and political background, and the multiple "character roles" that created historical precedents. Although for some observers these contemporary events are high drama, for others they are simply more of the same weary sequences of events seemingly without resolution.