They and their business are seen as the heart of the prairie provinces.

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Quebec and the prairie provinces also refused this week to sign the accord.

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He found that Canada was a land of distinct communities and regions with their own anxieties, from the seasonal loggers and fishermen of British Columbia and the Atlantic provinces to the farmers of the prairie states, who were worried about gun-registration laws and the paternalistic approach of Ottawa towards native peoples.

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