EDIT: I have removed my reply to Count Lothian, both because I misinterpreted him and because I was wrong-dead wrong-about the filles du roi. Mea culpa-I should know better, especially when I realized afterward that I was repeating
something that Mordecai Richler claimed. 
Here's something for all of us to consider...$1:
Poll finds 61 per cent of Quebecers opposed to sovereignty
Numbers 'stable' since PQ's 2012 election victory
More than 60 per cent of Quebecers would vote “No” in a referendum on Quebec’s sovereignty if it was held immediately, a new CROP poll commissioned by Radio-Canada shows.
The poll of 1,400 people asked “If a referendum asking if you want Quebec to become a sovereign country was held today, would you vote Yes or would you vote No.”
Among decided respondents, 61 percent said they would vote “No” and 39 per cent said they would vote “Yes.”
“These are very stable numbers,” said Youri Rivest, vice-president of CROP.
Support for sovereignty is essentially at the same place it was since the election of the Parti Québécois in 2012.
The poll was conducted via the Internet between March 5 and 8, 2014. There is no margin of error because it was conducted over the Internet.
Given that it's an Internet poll, there could easily be bias in it. But keep in mind that
Marois herself is waffling over whether to hold a referendum:
$1:
In a campaign during which Pauline Marois would prefer to focus on issues such as jobs, the economy and Quebec’s cultural identity, the Parti Québécois Leader is compelled to explain her hesitation about holding another referendum on sovereignty.
Ms. Marois insisted she was not going to be rushed into holding another referendum if her party formed a majority government in the April 7 vote. But she added that she will launch public hearings on Quebec’s political future to gauge whether there is a desire for another referendum.
“We want to keep the agenda open,” Ms. Marois said when asked by reporters about her referendum strategy. “If a referendum is needed, we will take the time to stop and listen to people’s opinions. And if we find that it is not relevant to do it, we won’t.”
It also remains to be seen how Pierre-Karl Peladeau's candidacy will be received by the PQ's base, so much of which is made up of teachers and union types. Given how badly they reacted when nationalist hero René Levesque tried to cut public spending back in the early '80s (long before Ralph Klein or Mike Harris made it trendy, I might add) I'm not so sure that this is really going to work out as well as Marois seems to think.
So while I'm concerned, I'm not ready to jump on the let's-get-ready-for-another-referendum bandwagon just yet. From everything I'm seeing, it looks like Marois could easily end up with another minority, which will probably piss off much of the party and cause talk of replacing her.
CKA Uber 
