WVDXA New country-Close, even.

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 From some news report:

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in Parliament he would 
recognize the country's francophone Quebec province 
<http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22Quebec+province%22&sid=breitbart.com> 
as a "nation" within Canada.

In an unprecedented move to woo Quebec separatists, he said he would 
present a motion later in the day asking the House of Commons 
<http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=%22House+of+Commons%22&sid=breitbart.com> 
to "recognize that Quebecers constitute a nation within a united Canada."

Quebec has held and lost two referendums on separation from the rest of 
Canada, in 1980 and 1995. Federalists won the second vote by a narrow 
margin.

Harper's surprise move, he said, was aimed at blocking "an unusual 
request" by the separatist Bloc Quebecois 
<http://search.breitbart.com/q?s=quebecois&sid=breitbart.com> to define 
Quebecois as a nation.

Quebecers typically understand the term to mean "a people," while 
Anglophone Canadians consider it akin to nationhood, with all the 
international responsibilities and benefits that come with it.