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Because Canada was started by the Quebecois/Canadiens.
If thats the case what happened? did the Quebecois/Canadiens. decide to give Canada to the English and then relegate themselves to a backwater like Quebec where draconian language legislation and language police where all that kept the remnants of the failing francophone culture alive.
If thats the case what happened? did the Quebecois/Canadiens. decide to give Canada to the English and then relegate themselves to a backwater like Quebec where draconian language legislation and language police where all that kept the remnants of the failing francophone culture alive.
That's not up for debate, nor have I ever claimed otherwise. The point I'm trying to make is that the French society that exists in Canada today is due to the largesse of the British, and the Canadiens being mailable. It would have been just as easy for them to do to Quebec as what they did in Acadia, but it served their purposes and benefits to assist in maintaining the status quo and clearly benefited the remaining Canadiens to play along. Plus they didn't need a Canadien version of the US revolution.
That's not up for debate, nor have I ever claimed otherwise. The point I'm trying to make is that the French society that exists in Canada today is due to the largesse of the British, and the Canadiens being mailable. It would have been just as easy for them to do to Quebec as what they did in Acadia, but it served their purposes and benefits to assist in maintaining the status quo and clearly benefited the remaining Canadiens to play along. Plus they didn't need a Canadien version of the US revolution.
I know what you mean, but "largesse" is probably not the term I would use.
I don't see any problem with Quebec becoming independent. It really wouldn't change things much either way, I feel. It definitely would be fairly small as countries go (population-wise). But that's no big deal.
(I think it would cause HUGE issues for Canada as it would then be a bifurcated country. The Maritime provinces are already kind of an "afterthought" because of their small size and population...........they would REALLY become afterthoughts, if Quebec became independent.)
I don't see any problem with Quebec becoming independent. It really wouldn't change things much either way, I feel. It definitely would be fairly small as countries go (population-wise). But that's no big deal.
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Quebec would be in the mid-90s (so mid-pack) in terms of population. About the same as Switzerland.
Of course when it comes to area it would be 18th, about the same size as Iran. Or four times the size of France.
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