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> "In this case, we are following the lead of the UN, Icann, ISO and other international organisations."

Maybe corporations will start to recognize Quebec as free when the UN, ICANN, ISO, and a handful of other apolitical organizations do too, as is the case with the officially recognized state of Palestine.

> Maybe corporations will start to recognize Quebec as free when the UN, ICANN, ISO, and a handful of other apolitical organizations do too

UN, ICANN, and ISO aren't apolitical organizations.

No organization is apolitical.

Some are much closer to being apolitical: Doctors without Borders and the Red Cross, for example.

Vive le Québec libre! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vive_le_Qu%C3%A9bec_libre)

You do that. Nobody wants Quebec.

It could end up like Lesotho, or worse, like Bophuthatswana, Ciskei, Transkei, or Venda. (the trick to setting up independent states to get rid of territory seems to be setting up several at once, which all cross-recognize each other, so you can claim they're each recognized by "several states". Maybe ditch the Maritimes at the same time?

Declare everyone free, within Quebec and without, and I'll be there with you. Until then it's just another government deciding what to do with "its" people.