Conan apologized to Canada
79Just two weeks before the Triumph segment the Anglo-French tensions had been elevated by comments made by popular though controversial ice hockey commentator Don Cherry who derided the increased use of safety gear in the sport saying only “Europeans and French guys” wore visors.
A scandal was also brewing around the mismanagement of Federal Funds in Quebec that implicated a number of the region's top ranking politicians in a web of corruption.
In 1995 a referendum was held in Quebec asking voters if the province should become a sovereign state. The "No" option won by just 54,288 votes, receiving 50.58% of the votes.
And In the 1960s a militant Quebec liberation movement carried out a number of sometimes deadly attacks prompting a State of Emergency and national focus on arresting its members which eventually contributed to its decline.
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