Vocabulary
The media claimed that the Parti Québécois was going through a phase of Union-Nationalization (French: unionnationalisation) when, in the mid-1980s, it chose Pierre Marc Johnson as its leader and put the issue of Quebec sovereignty on the back burner.
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