But, Yves Galarneau, the deputy director general of Correctional Services Western Quebec, he'd never seen anything like this escape in his three-decade-long career.

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With an epicenter about 11 miles (18 kilometers) from Shawville, in western Quebec, the quake was felt in the Ottawa-Gatineau area and out to Toronto, more than 260 miles away.

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And beyond it is a still more alarming thought: suppose English-majority areas in western and southern Quebec were to start taking seriously the idea that what Crees can demand ordinary Anglo-Canadians can too?

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