dbd33

I think the Western Separatists a greater threat, though both are negligible.

It suggests that French Canadians are integrated into the life of Canada, not a nation apart as you suggest. I'd go so far as to say that French Canadians provide what little distinct culture Canada has, without them, Canada's just Greater Ohio.

Do you have any evidence at all for the idea that French Canadians consider themselves to be somehow allied with France? I know it's not true of my children and their contemporaries, can you show that it's true of any francophone Canadians?

dbd33

I didn't bother with it because it was a personal attack irrelevant to the issue.

Souvenir

Most French Canadians couldn't find find France on a map and have little or no interest in trying to.

dbd33

but could they find Belgium?

kingfisher241049

No personal attack intended at all, so my apologies if you thought that. Its just that you were looking for me it seems.

Daedra

Well I didn't think he was attacking you DB, thought it was a funny remark if you re-read your post with the insinuated inflections on your opening statement, it did sound like you'd been hunting for Kingfisher... oh pah, once explained it's not as funny anymore CHEERS

Souvenir

Why would they want to? I spent a month there one afternoon.

Rete

I've just up to page one on this thread but had to pass it on to my Canadian husband. Looking forward to his joining in your little discussion. I'm not qualified to but as a Canadian, he is. He's also already a member of BE.

windward

Yep. There are rumblings.

John 'Two Jags/Philandering/Wingbag/Paid a Gross Wage to Play Croquet' Prescott also put forward a serious referendum on Yorkshire seceding from the UK (or being given it's own regional assembly, which as that's the level Wales has devolved to amounts to almost the same thing) but the people said no.

I guess the fact much smaller, even less important regions of my own country are thinking the same thing means I shouldn't be surprised by the sabre rattling coming from nation-sized segments of Canada.. but I can't help it... Federalism seems alien enough to me...

None of the others but heard of Cascadia yep.. only through the link from Mr. 007's sig, but assumed from the fact they had a 'Department for Sasquatch Affairs' planned, and the general nature of Rich's posts that it wasn't serious!!

.. on a lighter note - have tried to convince numerous compatriots that Canadian Tire money is the national currency over there, but none of my friends are that stupid... One did want to know why there was a Scottish person on the - 5c note I think? - .. she had a valid point.

NewWorldMan

Ah, Yorkshire will never have its own assembly. We don't like singing hymns all that much. The Welsh, on the other hand ........

NewWorldMan

Hehehe ..... not heard that one before.

NewWorldMan

"Negligible"?

11 years ago Canada came within a fraction of being torn apart. I'd hardly equate the PQ with a bunch of 'what if' merchants from Alberta.

Quebecers were pretty p'd off with the whole Sponsorship scandal and talk of another referendum after the next provincial election was everywhere.

http://www.legermarketing.com/eng/in...sp?prov=QC&l=1

If the recent polls are to be believed, that talk has abated somewhat but who knows what the next soverignty issue could be.

dbd33

The sovereignty issue is always sovereignty. There's much noise about it from time to time but it comes to nothing; the mechanics of it and the problem of having to disenfranchise the natives (again) are just too difficult.

neill

Nah, my reasons:-

1) quebeckers are too comfortable now. They haven't the belly for it.

2) PQ might do well just as a p*ss off to the liberals but won't do well when it comes to the referendum question.

3) The english that were frightened away have already gone. We're left with the rest who have already survived 2 referendums, why wouldn't they survive another?

4) Quebec is French enough, Francophones championed business a while back, they are no longer the underclass. What exactly would they be 'fighting for'? A bunch of feckless politicians-would-be royal family of the Sovereign state of Quebec? Yuk!

5) The allophone immigrants making up a large % of the annual intake won't vote for seperation.

kingfisher241049

So whats happening in Canada regarding Sovereignty and the Queen? Are Canadians still eager to dump the Queen and replace her with a President or something? I was hearing about all this a few years ago from the Australians, New Zealanders and the Canadians. Now don't hear about it quite so much.

Are the "kids" finally going there own way and breaking away from the Queen and the UK?