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Correction: Harper identified the Quebecois, not Quebec, as a "nation" within an indivisible Canada.

Ironic that a PM widely ridiculed during his early days as being intellectually incapable of grasping the oh-so-subtle nuances of the "Quebec issue" quickly dispatched the BQ and PQ within his time as PM..

His master stroke was his parliamentary speech within the early weeks of his first mandate in response to the carefully laid BQ trap where they demanded Harper's position on French Canada, culminating in his Quebecois as a nation within an indivisible Canada statement.

Rather than having arrogantly dispatched the gormless anglo, Duceppe instead sank into irrelevance.

It still drives Liberal supporters nuts that all of their decades of hand wringing and despite all of their professional Quebec "handlers", a transplanted Albertan bumpkin PM finally poured water on the fire.

Too deliciously funny