the road-mirror ambush: Québec's own children weaponized for "leur rai pays"

The operation's grim politics: the A.F.R. plan "to acquire and replace the tennis children of Québec" who are "en route to U.S.A. soil for gala competition" with E.T.A. — using the exhibition match as the way into the auteur's estate (147). And the cost is borne by their own: any junior players beyond the van's capacity "would be allowed to die for leur rai pays" (their homeland). The insurgency that fights for Québec will sacrifice Québec's children for it — the same self-consuming ferocity as the Antitoi raid (097) and the willing-volunteer viewings (098/147). The homeland is served by killing its own young, the war's logic turned all the way inward.