User:Liberlogos:Laurentia Revisited
Many people in Quebec think that a Montreal world's fair would be a fine way to celebrate the centennial of Confederation in 1967. A small but growing minority of their neighbors are working just as diligently for an event that would not only spoil the fun but would wreck Confederation itself — the secession of the province and its transformation into a French-speaking North American republic. [...]
Hard . Soft Sell.
Biggest and best organized, with some 2,000 dues-paying members, is the right-wing Alliance laurentienne, the creation of Raybond Barbeau, 30, a bombastic teacher of history at a University of Montreal-affiliated business college. The Alliance has attracted a few priests, and puts out a glossy monthly publication, Laurentie, sold at many Quebec newsstands. On the far-left is the Action Socialiste pour l'Indépendance du Québec, a small, shrill group founded by Raoul Roy, 45, a former Communist and unseccessful haberdasher ("I'm going out of business; the imperialist colonialism, the shopping center, has ruined me"). Castro's Cuban consul in Montreal, Carlos Herrero, helps the group with its organization or makes a speech whenever he can. Despite his aid — or possibly because of it — Action has only 200 members.
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(Laurentie, septembre 1961, no.115, pp.800-801)