Comfort and Indifference
Comfort and Indifference is a 1982 documentary film by Denys Arcand, offering an analysis of the 1980 [Quebec referendum], in which "sovereignty-association" was defeated as a first step to eventual secession from Canada. The film takes the position that the referendum result was a failure of courage and that the Québécois were numbed by prosperity and the explicitly Machiavellian manipulations of federalist leaders.