Quebec’s Bill 1 Will Be Secession by Other Means

Quebec’s Bill 1 Will Be Secession by Other Means

It was the thirtieth anniversary of the 1995 Quebec referendum this past October, and it brought to my mind that autumn thirty years ago, when I was far from home—in Sarajevo, with the United Nations. I was serving on the international team trying to hold together a fragile ceasefire that preceded the Dayton Accords, the agreement that ended the Bosnian war. One night, I found myself in Pale, the wartime political centre of the Bosnian Serb lead…