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QUEBEC — A CROP poll published Wednesday, indicating support of Quebec sovereignty has risen to 44 per cent, means that “Quebec is already independent in its mind,” says Jean-François Lisée.

The Parti Québécois minister, who leaves for Paris Thursday with Premier Pauline Marois, told reporters that Quebecers consider Canada “a foreign body.”

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“Quebecers realize we are sovereign, in fact, and every time we make decisions for ourselves, whether it is in economic policy, in foreign affairs, in resolving our union issues, the recovery of Montreal, we are among Quebecers, and we make decisions for Quebecers,” Lisée said.

Lisée likened Quebec and Canada to a couple whose relationship is sliding into irrevocable disrepair.

“We are not angry at each other,” he told the Globe and Mail. “We don’t love each other very much. We are just indifferent. We barely talk. We are in different bedrooms. At some point there is going to be an issue that says: Okay, this couple has been over for a while. Let’s have separate apartments.”