A 10:48 2002-02-27 +0100, Marco Cimarosti a écrit :
>What beats me, is how this discussion mutated to Canadian ethnology!
[Alain] Since I started this sub-threa[d|t], it was to say that initial
Canada, in the case Québec would become a country (something which is not
impossible), would no longer, even partly, be part of Canada, then. This
example may not be unique... By the way even Québec itself, now part of
Canada, at some point, was much bigger than initial Canada and was also
comprising many American States of today... Another map:
http://iquebec.ifrance.com/cyberiel/quebec1774.gif
(by curiosity see where Louisiana is on this map (!!! ... and it then
belongs to Spain after having been part of New France down to the Gulf of
Mexico [the capital was then the city of Québec too]). Canada and Québec
are indeed good cases in point if you want to talk about fuzziness of
borders...
So the discussion started with stability of "country" codes... If a code
represents a political territory, it can NOT be stable by nature, whether
it is alphabetic or numeric. The only stability you can expect has to do
with the non-reassignment of a code within a reasonable period, to a
different body.
Alain LaBonté
Québec
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