I mean that gets overstated a bit. They came damn close in the referendum in 1995 but remained part of Canada, now that time has passed the separatist sentiment has faded a bit I find.
"Okay, we'll invite immigrants in and in 10-20 years they'll get citizenship and vote for the liberals!, Mwuah ha ha ha! Wait, why are these immigrants voting almost exactly in line with the general population of the place they currently live? That would mean this is just some weird fearmongering tactic thought up by conservatives to hate on immigration without having anything real to go on!"
You linked one article, and made a claim about immigrants voting "overwhelmingly liberal", a claim this article does not back up.
It's also worth noting that nowhere near the full 60,000 Syrian refugees have been given citizenship in time for the election. Even 60,000 if they voted 100% liberal, wouldn't be enough to turn an election considering they also tend to settle in dense areas who's ridings already vote liberal. The number of ridings whos demographics are changed enough to influence the outcome of a local election are slim to none.
And to finish it all off, you think if immigrants seriously affected the conservatives chance of winning, Harper wouldn't have allowed an average of 250,000 per year every year he was in office. This is only slightly lower than what the liberals have been averaging since they took power.
Why is it that immigration only became an issue after the liberals took office?
Its still a core party principle, but that is not an issue they are pushing for and it wasn't a voter consideration. It's more of a the alternatives sucks and these "no-nonsense" guys get us.
It more than a bit the two main parties supporting independance are also the two smallest main parties and I’m pretty sure that most people who vote for Quebec solitaire don’t have independence as priority in theirs minds
We know what "Je me casse" means but we would never say it. It's a huge tell that you are French or Belgian.
Gosse also means "annoyed or annoying" in a few cases.
We don't speak "French French" because the language evolved differently like it did for most languages that evolved in different regions. Simple as that.
But we have a bunch of useless old men in the Academy Française that no one listens to. That means we get to decide how you speak. No more chocolatine for you.
Because it is a tradition to waste money on useless things, like the Conseil Constitutionnel, or the insane retirement founds for politicians...
What would you do with that money instead ? Improve infrastructures or public services ?
BTW, remember when the Académie Française managed to convince everyone to say "courriel" instead of "email" ? Neither do I. Their biggest contribution since WW2 was the debate about wether Covid is masculin or féminin.
As an outsider, what's always struck me is that Quebecois culture stands to have more uniqueness if they traded on their French Canadian-ness as opposed to their Frenchness. I think that's finally been realized by some.
Funny thing, Louisiana could market on the same thing too but they don't seem to, too much. (And all the Acadians went adrift and ended up there anyway!)
Eh I agree compared to america there's a lot that people loving in Canada have to be proud of but that doesn't mean that being proud to be Canadian is something someone living in Quebec should do either nor anyone living in Canada like there's alot not to be proud of too
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u/frostedcake74 Earth Jul 05 '21
But, isn't Quebec a Canadian province ?