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A “sizable number of anglophones voted Yes in the 1980 and 1995 referendums,” she added.

“We are coming together to speak with a united voice in order to counteract the erroneous assumption that all anglophones are federalists by default,” Drouin said. “Anglophones to not constitute a homogenous political group. We have going together to dispel this myth.”

The group is made up of “some three dozen people” who “are proud to be sovereignists, and we are not afraid to say that in the next referendum, we will vote Yes.”

There are many cultural, economic, ecological, historical, political and social reasons why Quebec should become independent, Drouin said.

“Quebec independence will enable us to act on the global stage as an equal partner on our own terms.”

After a Yes vote, money now sent to the federal government could be used to boost funding of health and education in Quebec, and as a country, Quebec could block projects like the Energy East pipeline.

Drouin said the group will operate a resource centre providing information in English about sovereignty. It will include a video of the English version of the victory speech that Jacques Parizeau pre-recorded in case the Yes side won the 1995 referendum.

It will also organize events in English about sovereignty and act as a “truth squad” to correct “inaccurate stories about Quebec and Quebec politics, especially those that fall into the same tired, old trap of presenting Quebecers as racist and xenophobic.”