The big lie that isn't being discussed regarding the referendum in Quebec

Yet none of the institutions we depend on for justice seemed to give a damn

NORMAN WEBSTER,
The Gazette

Published: 6 hours ago

Those
"spoiled" referendum ballots from 1995, off for burning or shredding or
kitty litter or whatever, represent a huge failure of Quebec society.
What we have here is inaction in one of the great political scandals in
Canadian history - arguably, the greatest of them all. If it had
succeeded, its consequences would have far outranked the Pacific
scandal or Beauharnois, Munsinger or sponsorship.

To
recapitulate, many thousands of perfectly valid No votes in the
sovereignty referendum were thrown out by Parti Québécois poll
officials. More such votes were accepted only because observers on the
scene raised a stink. Nobody knows how many No votes across the
province were, or almost were, illegally invalidated - but their total
could have been decisive in what everyone knew would be a
skin-of-the-teeth poll.

Simply put, this was fraud that could have cost us our country.