Two big legislative bills hit the commonwealth over the last few years: Bill 21 in Québec which bans religious symbols for some government employees and Brexit which is the plan for the United Kingdom to leave European Union. Admission: both are supported by racists I’ll admit it right away: racists against immigration in the...
Albertans are currently threatening a boycott of Québec products because Québec almost has full-employment and Alberta is in an economic Crisis and yet, Québec will be getting 13 Billion dollars (1.4 Billion more than last year) and Alberta zero. Furthermore, Québec has the best social programs in Canada (and thus, in North Amer...
The Ford government in Ontario has canceled the funding to build the first French University in Ontario which prompted a strong reaction from French-Ontarians but also from the French speakers of Québec, why? I already blogged about Regulation 17 but I want to talk a little about the Francophobia surrounding this issue. French as...
A lot of people claim that François Legault and the CAQ are in the extreme right and that Legault is similar to Trump. Is that true? First of all, despite superficial similarities, François Legault and Donald Trump have little in common. Sure, both of them were at the helm of successful companies and were “barons of indust...
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 ...
Montreal is the biggest city in the province of Quebec, and it is also the second biggest city in Canada, and the second biggest French-speaking city in the world, behind only Paris. Let’s talk about Montreal. The good Montreal is a vibrant and dynamic city, and probably the festival capital of North America. Have you ever see...
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...
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...