I don't understand why they react like offensed virgins every time Canada tries to create or maintain ties with traditional Quebec supporters. France has not signed anything going toward a mutual exclusivity with Quebec. As a Quebecker myself, I am ashamed that some people in the province still support that party. It has been ages since they have done anything productive for Quebec, as their role in parliament now consist mostly in disagreeing with whatever is said by the other parties.
I have tried to research into what was pushing Quebeckers into voting for the Bloc, and came to the conclusion that their natural association with the Parti Québécois, wich is attracting alot of people in the poorer, less educated and social sciences inteligentia classes of our province, probably because of their social, syndical and anti-American views. The lack of color of the federal political scene, where they have to choose between three parties that seems to have few interests in the province and constantly come up as corrupted in the news (or just phony in the case of Mr. Layton's NPD), is probably pushing them toward the only party that seemingly have their interests at heart, be that positive or negative in the end.
The key to getting rid of the Bloc, wich is looking like an ex-girlfriend who's sticking at the appartement even though she said she would leave right after our relationship was over, is probably in those factors. Fighting the influence of the PQ on provincial grounds by slowly changing traditional cultural views of victimisation (Quebeckers are a slightly paranoiac people... They will have a natural distrust for anglophones and business owners, whom they have seen as recurring protagonists in our short history), and incorporating Quebeckers as an important part of parties' programs would probably allow the Bloc's influence to fade enough to force their withdrawal of the political scene, for everyone's good.
This nation as seen enough confrontation, it now needs cooperation in the face of the new challenges awaiting it. Beside, if people still speak french in Louisiana and Acadia, I don't see why Quebeckers would suddenly lose all traces of their original language should they incoroporate more into Canada.
Douke