Quote: (03-01-2016 06:29 PM)MrRoundtree Wrote:
So since Quebec was originally Canada, how will you guys call yourself??
Well, seeing as you can't buy Molson
Canadian beer in some Quebec bars for clearly OBVIOUS reasons (and in case the reasons aren't obvious... it's because the owners of those Quebec bars HATE Canada) , I'm sure it's safe to say that Quebeckers will be perfectly happy with us keeping the name.
As for mythology... I'll take "America".
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Especially after Trump annexes western Canada and builds a wall along the eastern Ontario border.
Look my friend, it's not that I haven't tried. I used to be the kind of guy that would wear a "My Canada includes Quebec" button during separation referendums. Then I lived in QUebec City for 6 years. My eyes are wide open now. I understand the deep-rooted contempt that Quebec has for Canada because I've seen it first hand. Actually, Steven Crowder and Gavin McInnes made this point very well during the interview below.
Jump to the
29:09 mark and listen as Crowder describes the systemic discrimination he experienced as an English child going to school in Quebec. Crowder rightly contrasts Quebec's
systemic discrimination with discrimination felt by blacks in the USA, which is not systemic, i.e. not nearly as terrible. I know this discrimination all too well, because I lived it bro. Then McInnes goes on to quite rightly mock Quebec's tyrannical language laws as Orwellian thought control. The
14:09 mark is good too where McInnes describes Quebec as a teenager that has been threatening to leave the house for 400 years... "OK GO!!! BYE!!!" and then goes on to explain how, to an English Canadian living in Quebec, the Quebec government is essentially a dictatorship much like Chile under Pinochet. I concur with Gavin's analysis 100% by the way.
I understand your sentiment in the desire to maintain the historical mythology of Canada and I used to share that sentiment, until I lived in Quebec, and woke up to the reality that it is only a myth. Quebec is not a part of Canada because it doesn't want to be. Best the rest of Canada accepted this reality and moved on.
Oh and btw, the Fox interview that McInnes did with a feminist that broke the Internet and that he and Crowder are discussing in the video above is embedded below. It is a MASTER CLASS on how to school a feminist.