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[[Image:Rene Levesque.jpg|thumb|right|René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985.]] | [[Image:Rene Levesque.jpg|thumb|right|René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec from 1976 to 1985.]] | ||
His reading notes abound in quotations and underlinings to the glory of small countries. The nation is for him an eternal concept, as necessary as the family to the balance and realization of the individual. When the people is impoverished, fearful and uncertain, like the people of Quebec, the individual is unbalanced, degraded and diminished. In a small dynamic country like [[Wikipedia:Norway|Norway]] or [[Wikipedia:Holland|Holland]], the individual feels great, proud and stronger. Thus, the legal reality of the Canadian nation, brandished by | His reading notes abound in quotations and underlinings to the glory of small countries. The nation is for him an eternal concept, as necessary as the family to the balance and realization of the individual. When the people is impoverished, fearful and uncertain, like the people of Quebec, the individual is unbalanced, degraded and diminished. In a small dynamic country like [[Wikipedia:Norway|Norway]] or [[Wikipedia:Holland|Holland]], the individual feels great, proud and stronger. Thus, the legal reality of the Canadian nation, brandished by [[Wikipedia:Quebec federalist ideology|federalists]] like the ten Tablets of Law, is of little weight in front of the human, linguistic and social reality of distinct Quebec. [...] | ||
Going through the book of Serge Richard on the [[Wikipedia:Education in Sweden|Swedish school system]], he discovers that the ministry of education there only has about a hundred civil servants. He writes: "Compact society = small size = mini-bureaucracy." Nothing to do with the incredible waste where 11 governments and more than 200 federal-provincial committees try to survive within a true bureaucratic jungle. [...] | Going through the book of Serge Richard on the [[Wikipedia:Education in Sweden|Swedish school system]], he discovers that the ministry of education there only has about a hundred civil servants. He writes: "Compact society = small size = mini-bureaucracy." Nothing to do with the incredible waste where 11 governments and more than 200 federal-provincial committees try to survive within a true bureaucratic jungle. [...] | ||