"The last time it flared up" was with Mulroney?????

Your rewriting of history is comical.

The seperatist movement was pretty strong when Chretien almost lost Quebec. PET was also dealing with a very strong seperatist movement as well with the first referendum challenge.

Seperatists see the inherent weakness of Liberal governments that pander to special interest groups and is why it's the only political party that has ever had to deal with referendums. Seperatist movements always lose momentum during years of Conservative governance.

PMZ is benefitting from the actual squashing of the seperatist movement made by Harper and his no-nonsense approach and will not have that much to worry about as he's condemned to being a one term mistake.

Also, remember that Dion didn't craft the Clarity Act and only borrowed the framework from the Reform Party.