The Red Ensign
Canada: A People, not a Post-National State
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“To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.”
Solidarity from another Anglo-Canadian here. We have much in common it seems.
Please take this in the spirit of debate. I think there is a 75% probability that what I’m about to say is correct.
Here goes: I think Quebec will separate from Canada by 2030.
My reasoning: The Québécois have to decide if they’re better in or out of Canada. It is that simple. I remember the great Quebec Director Denys Arcand saying that to the Québécois a Torontonian is no different than a Texan. So in that vein the question is a simple binary, in or out.
The case for “out” - oui - is easy to make and Paul StPierre Plomondon is a capable salesman. Here is the argument: mass immigration is going to swamp our culture, like it has in the rest of Canada. New immigrants are eventually Canadian citizens and are flooding across provincial borders in pursuit of economic opportunity. Who can blame them. Quebec having control over immigration saved the day in the 1995 referendum but now it’s the internal immigrant that’s the problem. That can’t be fixed. This is a winning argument.
The 25% that I reserve as the possibility of failure is simply that the young people of Quebec have likely been demoralized in school and hold their culture in contempt as a settler colonizing oppressor. They likely don’t give a shit about Québécois culture they want to be citizens of the world.
Sorry to be a bummer .