Miren por donde la edición de The Economist recién calentita publica un reportaje sobre quebequeses que no parecen serlo tanto. Coming Out Canadians ($) (por el tono, salir del armario en plan canadiense) se refiere a las manifestaciones públicas de algunos artistas quebequeses que han tornado, más o menos seriamente, su soberanismo si no a un federalismo sí a una duda sobre los métodos o la finalidad de ser soberano:
Michel Tremblay has been a pillar of the province's cultural establishment since the 1960s. In a casual interview after a literary event, Mr Tremblay berated separatist leaders for putting economic issues above cultural ones. “As long as the economy is put ahead of everything else, sovereignty will never happen,” he argued. The next day, Robert Lepage, a dramatist and filmmaker, admitted to similar misgivings. “I still have a sliver of sovereignist sentiment within me but I clearly need to be re-convinced,” he said.Como bien sabemos por aquí, al final los santones de las patrias reparten las licencias de traición y fidelidad, entre ellos el líder del partido qubeçois, Gilles Duceppe:
Mr Tremblay duly assured Mr Duceppe—and later the province—that he still thinks Quebec should be independent. But he asked of the lynch mob: “What are they going to do? Burn my books in the public square because I dare to say something different?”Tiempos modernos estos, más fácil ser marica (un avance, no lo duden) que pasar de la patria. Ya les cansé bastante con la cosa canadiense, recuerda mucho a la piel de toro.
The brouhaha reflects a genuine quandary for the separatist movement. Its leaders have downplayed culture to broaden their appeal to include immigrant groups and not just native French-speakers. But the spat also underlined that, despite receiving pots of federal money, it is much easier for Quebec's artists to come out as gay (as both playwrights did years ago) than to reveal the merest suspicion of closet federalism.
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