Certain alarmists have followed one another in a credo of fear to predict catastrophes which would follow the advent of an independent Quebec. François Legault, who had experienced the same attacks during the presentation of his year one budget in 2005, put on his new outfit of “Mr. Canada” to play the soothsayer and announce a difficult transition from province to country for the Quebec and the sacrifices that would result for the population.
If the Quebec sovereignty project is hypothetical at this stage, the slow transition of an increasingly minority Quebec into a multicultural Canada is worryingly acute. Indeed, in a post-national country where each ethnic group can live in ghettos, Quebec, as a founding people, will have to take a number in the long line towards the recognition of its nation.
Moreover, English Canada’s deaf ear to Quebec’s aspirations to have its difference recognized is punctuated by missed opportunities. Indeed, from particular status to cultural sovereignty, from distinct society to sovereignty-association to achieve independence, all these attempts at emancipation ended in rejection on the part of the federal government and its provincial accomplices.
This form of contempt is still present today in the reactions of rest of canada (ROC) in the files of secularism (law 21), language (law 96), immigration and, more recently, in the modifications made to university tuition fees with regard to foreign students and those from other provinces. […]
Isn’t the Quebec of tomorrow at risk of being sacrificed at the altar of a multicultural and postnational Canada? […]
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