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The goal of Quebec's sovereignist movement is to make Quebec an independent state. In practice, the terms independentist, sovereignist, and separatist are used to describe people adhering to this movement, although the latter term is perceived as pejorative by those concerned as it de-emphasizes that the sovereignty project aims to achieve political independence without severing economic ...
Oct 24, 2017 · Over the past 50 years, Quebec has repeatedly presented the rest of the country with an ultimatum: “Give us more, or we’re leaving!” After two Quebec referendums (in 1980 and 1995) and a national referendum (1992), after countless constitutional conferences, reports and debates that dominated Canada’s political landscape for more than a generation, a vexing contradiction has emerged ...
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Jul 12, 2018 · Yet nationalism is most associated with the province’s sovereignty movement and the Parti Québécois, the party created in 1968 to make Quebec an independent country. First elected in 1976, the ...
Jun 30, 2022 · 5. Essayist Mathieu Bock-Côté is perhaps the most prominent among these intellectuals. A prolific blog writer for Quebecor, Quebec’s leading mainstream francophone media concern, a regular public affairs analyst on electronic media in both Quebec and France, he burst onto Quebec’s political and intellectual scenes a dozen years ago with hard-hitting, polemical essays and public ...
Oct 6, 2021 · Origins of Quebec nationalism . But the roots of Quebec nationalism extend as far back as 1608, when explorer Samuel De Champlain founded Quebec City, and in turn the colony of New France. The battle for supremacy on the North American continent against English colonisers culminated with the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759.
Jun 9, 2022 · While it is becoming more common to speak French in addition to one or more other languages, the number of people in Canada who use French as their primary official language went from 7.7 million ...
Nov 1, 2019 · Gérard Bouchard, a historian and sociologist with the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi, observed that the Bloc Québécois’s election success had laid bare that, while the Quebec independence ...
