Yet the attempt should surely be made, drear as that prospect is for a country that has haggled and failed twice since 1987.

ECONOMIST: The lesson of Quebec

As morning dawns, musicians stumble home to financial drear.

ECONOMIST: What do musicians do when they rock towards retirement?

PQ aided by the electoral system can but retain power, or regain it after defeat, it can try again and again until it wins, in a long nightmare of uncertainty worse than drear for Quebec and Canada alike.

ECONOMIST: The lesson of Quebec