In Newfoundland you can start an argument over confederation with Canada faster than you can say Annieopsquotch.* Independent Newfoundlanders voted against becoming a Canadian province in 1869, sang political ditties like "Come near at your peril, Canadian wolf," stubbornly snowed under every party that proposed confederation.
Last summer Newfoundlanders elected a national convention of 45 members to see if they should carry on with a British-appointed commission as the ruling body, or if it was time for a change. When the convention met, a fortnight ago, Delegate Joseph Smallwood, 46, who had turned from writing to farming and from pig...
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