[RightWhale]

if Quebec the provinces east of Quebec are excluded

Everything is on the table. Pobably Quebec and First Nations will be out, but the Maritimes will be in.

[Azura2]

I don't think so. The maritimes are in Quebec's sphere of influence. From that article:

The Canadian Right's shift to pro-Americanism was coincident, he says, with the rise of the American New Right and the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.

The National Post, Canada's leading right-wing newspaper, sides with the Alliance. A reliable source claims that a famous right-wing pundit, a star of the National Post, was heard to say, "The Post has a problem. It was started to save Canada, but Canada isn't worth saving."