So now that Black Lives Matter is back, a lot of Québec nationalists are outraged at the idea that Québec might have systemic racism despite a lot of red flags pointing to it. Why is that? First, three disclaimers: Whenever racism is mentioned in Canada, First Nations are mentioned, but I will avoid this subject today, i...
In July 1912, the Ontario Conservative government issued Regulation 17 which in effect restricted French as a teaching language to the first 2 years of grade schools, therefore forcing all of the French-language Catholic schools to close. A lot of the articles on this site talk about discrimination against French-speakers in Canada ...
Victoria Day is celebrated on the last Monday before May 25 across Canada… except for the province of Québec which celebrates since 2003 the National Patriots’ Day instead, and before that, Adam Dollard Des Ormeaux’s Birthday. Why? First, what is Victoria Day? It officially the celebration of Queen Victoria’...
I personally find interesting that the French province of Canada, Québec, was named after an Algonquin word “Kébec” which means “Where the river narrows”, when the name for Canada itself comes from the word “Kanada” or Village in Iroquois. What interesting about that? When Samuel de Champlain fo...
A lot of the posts on this site express the rejection by the Québec government of the 1982 constitution because it protects Québec distinct society less than the 1867 Constitution. Yet, the 1867 Constitution wasn’t perfect either! In fact, it was mainly written with the rights of English speakers in mind, as can attest its a...
As I said in another article, the best answer to “What does Québec want?” is “The Lake Meech Accord”. That article explains the main changes to the constitution included in the accord. The 11 prime minister of Canada met at the Willson House on Meech Lake on April 30th 1987 to discuss how to get Québec to si...
I can summarize this whole site in only 4 words: the Meech Lake Accord. Yes, it’s almost that simple. The Meech Lake Accord would have probably been enough to satisfy most of Québec’s demands; at least, those of the majority of Quebeckers, removing any opportunities that ultra-nationalists might have had to gain importan...
This one is rather complex to understand for a non-nationalist, in fact, I had trouble with it myself because I feel like this is mainly a house of cards built to support a narrative than an actual fact, but oddly enough, while their facts are a little slim there is indeed a series of problems with the 1867 constitution. First, in 18...