The 30% non-solution:
…the poll conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies also reveals sharp contrasts between Quebec and English Canada…
Among Quebecers…a mere 30.1% reported they were very attached to Canada compared to 71.6% in the rest of the country…
Jack Jedwab, executive director of the association, said the poll shows more has to be done to convince Quebecers they can have an attachment to both Quebec and to Canada…
No flippin’ shoot, Sherloque. More différences significatives:
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There was also a significant difference between Quebecers and the rest of Canada when it came to their attachment to religion, the area where the fewest number of people reported a strong attachment.
While 25.5% of Canadians said they felt very attached to religion that number dropped to only 14.2% in Quebec.
Attachment to one’s ethnic groups was another area where there were sharp distinctions between Quebecers and the rest of the country. While 43% of Quebecers said they were very attached to their ethnic group, that dropped to 26.5% of respondents in English Canada…
This is one subject on which the Globe and Mail’s Jeffrey Simpson has occasional moments when he points out painful realities we don’t like to face. Again at Daimnation!:
Why do we bother with them?
Meanwhile, Norman spectates:
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–We bring you the latest on Steve’s Belgian model
Belgium goes to polls for election that could trigger country’s breakup…
Maybe we in the RoC should begin, er, reflecting.
Mark
Ottawa
Cut Quebec lose before we lose the country. I don’t want Canada to become communist in order to make Quebec happy.
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Partition Quebec into two provinces; Canadian Loyalists and Separatists. Once the Loyalists are taken care of, allow the separatist province to do what ever they want. I expect the separatists land mass would be about one fifth the size of the Canadian Loyalists.
Regardless of any decision about Quebec separation “Les Pur Laine” must MUST be advised beforehand that any territory transposed to Quebec jurisdiction is to revert back to Canada.
That means that Les Quebecois will be left with the few miles on either side of the St Lawrence that they started with. To begin with, they must forget about all the territory that drains into the Hudson’s Bay. The rest of Canada has even more claims for further territory.
If your not with us you are agin us.
I guess that makes us about even. I have zero attachment to Quebec as a province.
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