It's no big secret that the province of Quebec and the rest of Canada haven't gotten along too well. There has been 2 referendums, and each time Quebec voted to remain part of Canada (barely). Recently I heard somewhere that during the Beijing Olympics, media in Quebec separated the French Canadian medalists from the medal count for team Canada. Also, universities in Quebec are super affordable to French speaking citizens but expensive for out of province applicants. And its not like these sentiments aren't felt by other countries around the world. Just look at China and Taiwan or the US and Alaska, although both of these examples have physical boundaries with the main country or allopatric country formation (allopatric=through physical seperation). In the case of Quebec and Canada, this would be a case of sympatric country formation in which case the divide is created by differences in culture and language. You may wonder why I chose Alaska as opposed to Hawaii. Well, Hawaii is a beautiful tropical island so the residents could care less what country they belong too. I say, why not just let Quebec try being its own autonomous country for a year. There are surely many positives that could come from this( for non-Quebequers I mean):
1. We could call the new country Quebeqistan even if they don't want us to
2. Ads and labels would only have English printed, saving coporations lots of money in printing costs
3. Children would not be forced to learn French (although, now that I think of it, since I was forced to, they should be too!)
4. We wouldn't have to hear English politicians try to speak French
5. We wouldn't have to hear French politicians try to speak English
6. Children would have one less province and capital to memorize (Actually, why not just let Quebec annex the Yukon, North West Territories and Nunavut as well)
7. People would not eat artery clogging, heart attack inducing poutine (although they would probably find a substitute pretty quickly
8. It would give me a lot more to blog about
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Due to the support for this blog, we have now raised $62ish, all of which will go towards the Chordoma Foundation. Thank you.
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