QUEBEC NATIONALISTS LAUNCH PRO-INDEPENDENCE BEER
December 1st, 2008
BY MONICA DOBIE
A SEPARATIST cooperative in Quebec has launched a beer it hopes will further the cause for the French-speaking Canadian province to become an independent nation.
Montreal-based L'Independante is now distributing the locally brewed ale with profits being donated to campaigns calling for Quebec to leave Canada.
Vice-president Jacques Leduc told just-drinks: "Our official motive is to distribute our beer and the people who drink it are the ones doing the gesture. The sovereigntists don't have a daily way to participate in the cause so by ...
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