Quebec can’t have its “nation” both ways
November 25, 2006So, Quebec nationalists, you want a nation, eh? So, which will it be?
1) The nation of all French Canadians throughout Canada, which has no territory and is present throughout the great expanse of the Canadian landscape.
2) The Nation of Quebec, which includes everybody who lives in Quebec, be they French Canadians, English Canadians, and immigrants.
Giles Duceppe and other Quebec nationalists want a French Quebec nation, comprising French Quebeckers, to the exclusion of everyone else in Quebec. This is not a baseless assertion but is instead based on political discourse by separatists and hard nationalists in that province for the last 40-50 years.
Sorry, guys, but you can’t have it both ways.
