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...
From our very nature of our having been colonized by a different colonial power, Québec, even before the original constitution of 1867, was different from the other provinces. In the 1860s, during discussions of Confederation, Québec was hesitant to join ranks with the other 3 provinces (Ontario, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia). Wha...
To be honest, put like that, it’s true that it doesn’t appear fair for Québec taxpayers (and only for Québec taxpayers) to get a 16.5% reduction in their Federal income tax. This program is called the Quebec Abatement and the few people outside of Québec who hear about it are generally outraged that Quebec doesn’...
From the very beginning, the people who initially formed Québec were very different from the people who colonized the rest of Canada. The ancestors of most of the Québecois arrived in Québec from France between 1608 and 1763. My direct paternal ancestor, for example, arrived in 1673, but 90 years later, the flow of French immigran...