Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 31, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Woman to hmm Luam Board of Gover nors names University first female president the weather a mixture of Sun and High Low details on Page c11 breaking frighten strict Justice 1 is restaurant i Manitoba e in t e it i Isi Ivi e in t ii fid comedy local improve troupe serves re Fly having Autho leaves Wal flip Canada for jets take the band rises from heavy Metal halt Ovleen steam the Aba is at the starting Charleswood takes a step Back in and Ann in sports to 6 5 Winnipeg free press 5 plus taxes outlying areas october close Canada dream crowd weeps by Doug Nairne staff reporter Montreal Jean Francois Cloutier wept last crying aloud that his destiny As a quebecois has been snatched from his hands yet the 45yearold worker in the yes Campaign is one of More than two million Quebe cers who cast their votes in favor of carving a Sovereign nation out of Only to lose a heartbreaking see saw Battle to the no we were so so close to Pur and then it was gone Cloutier i will remember this As the Day we lost our country and were conquered by several thousand yes supporters packed into the palais Des Cong res de Montreal last night fully Antici Pating a yes the streets around the palais were filled with jubilant yes sup porters who stopped traffic and waved the Blue and White Fleurde Lis in a frenzy of nationalist the initial results projected on the screen in the cavernous Hall showed a modest yes driving the crowd into a roaring chant of but the Celebration turned to anxious anticipation As the Lead slowly dwindled and the no Side painfully clawed its Way closer and closer to the so per cent with per cent of the polls the crowd gave an audible gasp and began booing As the yes Side reached 50 per the booing lasted few minutes As the crushing realization hit Home that the no Side had triumphed yet Many people held their Heads and others just stared at the screen in disbelief As they watched the final results come even the Fleurdelis stopped then it was but Only for Many yes sup porters proclaiming the slim margin of defeat will not Stop their Only minutes after the results were the separatists were issuing a dire warning to the rest of the country that they will be Back in the fight this the federalists want a Content Canada now they have one that clearly is not United or said Lise a retired provincial Quebec is being held captive in a country we do not want to be part of and we will never after the tens of thousands of people poured onto the streets of downtown the yes supporters paraded through the City and defiantly pro claimed they had lost a narrow Bat but not the one yes supporter embraced a Winnipeg reporter and Shook his hand firmly when asked for his opinion on the you must Tell people in Manitoba that this is not Quebec will not rest until our destiny is Ful Michel Jalbert Bouchard vows Quick return Parizeau stuns by Dan Lett and Doug Nairne staff reporters no supporters celebrate at Headquarters in downtown Montreal As the results Roll Montreal Quebec separatists lost the Battle by the Slimmest of mar gins last but bloc quebecois Leader Lucien Bouchard promised to be Back much More quickly than you think to win the Premier Jacques Parizeau stunned both foes and supporters by suggesting not Only that there would be another but also that francophone should mobilize to vote and neutralize the anglophone and ethnic it was a frightening suggestion by Given that Many fear no francophone Quebe cers could be targeted for reprisals following the where 60 per cent of fran co phones voted for we fought a Good Battle and managed to clearly show what we Parizeau we will Roll up our sleeves and begin All Over then he shocked Many listeners by saying the separatists were Defeated by the Money and the ethnic repeatedly referring to francophone Quebe cers As us and the anglophone and immigrant minority residents As he predicted the next Dum will be a Victory for the yes Side As francophone managed to dominate the smaller we want a country and we shall have he continued please see referendum results non Side wins vote number of votes cast yes i breaking the silence a10 i polls predicted b1 i need seen for massive b2 i Bouchard wont be going i buoys Dollar b6 yes sides rage explodes in Montreal by Dan Lett and Doug Nairne staff reporters Montreal burning Canadian smashing car windows and chanting Quebec for Quebe cers and thousands of angry yes sup porters surrounded the no head quarters in Montreal last hundreds of police had moved in and by Cost offi cers had begun beating some of the mob with night a line of about 200 police in riot gear and brandishing their Sticks began advancing on the unruly crowd in an attempt to push them out of the which was earlier sealed off to All vehicular and pedestrian tray Many in the crowd said they were angry at anglophones and ethnic minorities in the who they believe ruined the yes sides chances in the the Riding office of Liberal Leader Daniel Johnson went up in flames Early hours after the referendum the inside is pretty Well said Clement dispatcher for the Vaudreuil Dorion fire department West of about 500 no supporters were trapped inside their Headquarters for hours after the end of official with police threatening to arrest them for so much As taking a step outside the helicopters circled overhead in the night sky and undercover police worked the quickly grabbing agitators and dragging them demonstrators bashed in numerous Canada Post mailboxes in the a free press reporter trapped outside in the while another was stuck inside the no head Quad said the scene got More and More ugly As the night pro it was the kind of confrontation police had All evening out Side the no committee head Quad a downtown nightclub called Metropolis on the famed Ste Catherine the tension was almost too much to continued please see editorial the next move is up to the federalists half of Quebe cers say they would rather quit Canada than fix the other half would rather the deadlock revealed yesterday by Premier Jacques Parizeau sovereignty referendum brought his separation drive screeching to a it also obliged federalists to come up with a better canadians during these last few weeks stared at the Stark reality that their country can be destroyed by failure to heed the warning signs from half of Quebe cers do not have Confidence in the capacity of Canada to recognize their sense of vulnerability and their special Reliance on Quebec to protect their interests far exceeding the Reliance other canadians place on their provincial govern Quebe cers Confidence was shaken by the country failure to accept the program of constitutional changes brought Forward by former Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa and elaborated by the other premiers into the Meech Lake and Charlottetown which both failed to win prime minister the federalists in Quebec and the pre Miers of nine other provinces should begin exploring the Steps Canada must take to prove the Quebec pessimists they should prove that Canada is As adaptable and responsive As they have repeatedly claimed during the referendum Parizeau parti quebecois and Lucien Bouchard bloc quebecois gambled everything on yesterdays sovereignty referee since the vote failed to give them the mandate they needed to take Quebec out of confederation and bargain a new they have dealt themselves out of the nation building important task Parizeau was elected to govern he should turn his full attention to that important since his program of sovereignty and partnership has been rejected by the he has no mandate to pursue he cannot be expected to change his private opinions about Canada and its but he must recognize that his strategy has failed the test he chose for Bouchard and his bloc quebecois colleagues were elected to parliament to defend Quebec interests and to serve As an Ottawa Branch of the separatist movement during the Effort to detach the province from that Effort has now been derailed by the electorate and must be abandoned for the foreseeable once the bloc has digested and accepted the popular ver dict on the Core of its it must either dissolve or Victory came so tantalizingly close that separatists will be tempted to try for a Quick second that would be a big mis the voters made the result close in full knowledge of what they were since polling showed them How the other Vot ers were going to participation at the polls was extremely there is no reason to think that different weather or a better Campaign would have produced a different the initiative now rests with the change is most easily made by Small Chretien should show that the changes he is making in Canada for Many reasons correspond to the changes Quebe cers he should show that he is listening to that he has a direction and a he should invite canadians to stick with the country is in a mood to better than Bank foreign Exchange rates guaranteed corporate accounts custom House 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