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John Ivison: A Bill 21 explosion could engulf Carney, Quebec and Canada

The Supreme Court’s coming ruling has the potential to reignite separatism and quake the teetering balance between courts and government

Mark Carney made swift work of Elon Musk, the day after the world’s richest man said Quebec should separate.

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Speaking at a spending announcement in Sherbrooke, Que. on Thursday, the prime minister said the future of Canada will be decided by Canadians and the people of Quebec.

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He said his government is building a stronger country so that it can be “free from interference from foreign governments and large tech firms that think they can tell us what to do.”

But he was much more circumspect when asked about his recent interaction with a man who agrees with Musk: the new premier-designate of Quebec, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.

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Carney said the two had their first direct conversation when he called to congratulate the Parti Québécois leader on his election as premier. They talked about collaborative federalism, homelessness, immigration and relations with the U.S., Carney said.

One thorny topic that does not appear to have come up, but which will loom large over their relationship, is the Supreme Court’s imminent decision on the constitutionality of Quebec’s Bill 21 legislation on the “laicity” of the state, that precludes school boards........

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