Did France covertly support Quebec separatists?

This site claims that “Operation Ascot” was a France covert program to encourage separatism is Quebec (The link isn’t working so I cached the page. All the article’s comma are shown as periods for some reason.)

http://www.google.ca/search?q=cache:AMHWx_pV9w8J:www.ocnus.net/artman/publish/printer_4983.shtml+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

I read a book regarding the extensive covert operations Foccart and the SDECE engineered in francophone Africa, but I hadn’t heard anything regarding activities in Canada. Could anyone validate this information?