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Mar. 15, 2021
On June 12, 1995, Quebec held a referendum on independence from Canada. The No vote was 50.58 percent and 49.42 percent voted Yes.
Imagine there had been a swing of three-quarters of a percent, and Quebec had become a sovereign state with a population of eight million people, about 80 percent of whom were French-speaking Roman Catholics – most of whom fancied themselves the true Quebecois – founding the only overwhelmingly Catholic commonwealth in North America.