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When the Parti Québécois talks about sovereignty, Ottawa reaches for the same emotional tools it used in 1980 and 1995: fear of economic collapse, warnings about global instability, and dire predictions of what would happen if Quebec tried to stand on its own. The words shift with the times, but the structure never does. That’s how Mélanie Joly, Canada’s foreign affairs minister at the time and one of her party’s best communicators in Quebec, found herself warning last year that the PQ’s renewed push for independence would “hand Quebec over to Donald Trump.” It was a dramatic claim,...