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Subject: Re: The Canadian Domain: Introduction to CA
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Date: Thu, 26-Nov-87 11:10:31 EST
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In article <1987Nov25.131317.26029@sq.uucp> msb@sq.UUCP (Mark Brader) writes:
>
>By the way, to Brad's suggestion:
>> Instead of ON and PQ and AB what's wrong with "Ontario" and "Quebec" and
>> "Alberta?"   Computers are very good at arranging aliases. ...

As pointed out by Denis Fortin (fortin@zap.uucp) in another forum (his message
will likely get here very late because of problems at musocs), established
usage in both federal and provincial governmental institutions is to use QC as
the abbreviation.

It is indeed a bit silly that PQ is the only abbreviation where the word
"province" appears.  I remember noticing that the abbreviation got out of
style when a political party of the same name got elected.  Pros wanted to
avoid the "P", cons wanted to avoid the subliminal association.

In other words, QC it should be.

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