Richard Gwynn has a great article in the Star today about Martin’s foreign policy today, where the role of Quebec in Canadian foreign policy will be discussed. Here’s Gwynn’s opening line:

No great political expertise is needed to guess that Prime Minister Paul Martin will respond to Quebec’s demands for its own voice in foreign affairs with a firm, “No. Non.”

A similarly minimal level of political knowledge will be enough to cause any observer to take for granted that Martin’s eventual position on the Ottawa-Quebec negotiations on foreign affairs that began this week will be, “Yes. Oui.”