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There are some that are still pushing for more and more french services now at the same time some want less and less english in Quebec that is why people get fed up.
In any event, the amount of English services in Quebec is way more generous than the French stuff in any Canadian province including Ontario, except New Brunswick, although the francophone community there is proportionately about four times the size of the anglo-Quebec community (so it's only normal): 33% vs. 9%.
The separatists long ago abandoned Franco-Ontarians and all the other Francophones in Canada when they decided they'd stop trying to promote the well being of French Canadians in Canada and instead would focus on the Quebecois in a new Quebecois homeland. When in government, the PQ actively worked against the cause of French language education in Manitoba because they're against minority linguistic right everywhere. As an English Quebecker, I have alot more sympathy for Franco-Ontarians as another linguistic minority than I do for the English Ontarians who find it somehow offensive that they should be able to get services in an official language in their own country.
While what you say is true, and not saying this is what you are doing, but it would be erroneous to link the mistreatment of francophone minorities to the Quebec independence movement. In fact, francophobia across Canada has long roots going back way before anyone had ever heard of the PQ. And the Quebec independence movement was actually partly created in reaction to this persistent Canadian francophobia.
While what you say is true, and not saying this is what you are doing, but it would be erroneous to link the mistreatment of francophone minorities to the Quebec independence movement. In fact, francophobia across Canada has long roots going back way before anyone had ever heard of the PQ. And the Quebec independence movement was actually partly created in reaction to this persistent Canadian francophobia.
Yes, of course I didn't mean to imply they created the issue, I'm just saying that by narrowly only caring about Quebec and disengaging from the federation they steered Quebec away from advocating for Francophone rights nation-wide. Of course progress has been made, but I think part of that was also the tide of history, and that more progress would have been made if Quebec with all of its demographic might had been advocating for it. Instead, the separatists just aimed to antagonize the ROC and exacerbated Francophobia, rather than fighting against it. It's the federalists who believed in a bilingual Canada, like Trudeau, who did the most good on this front, not the separatists who only cared about the province of Quebec getting independence rather than promoting the interests of French Canadians more broadly. Once again, i'm not saying there weren't spin off benefits to the separatist movement, but that I think there would have been more gains had history gone differently.
Yes, of course I didn't mean to imply they created the issue, I'm just saying that by narrowly only caring about Quebec and disengaging from the federation they steered Quebec away from advocating for Francophone rights nation-wide. Of course progress has been made, but I think part of that was also the tide of history, and that more progress would have been made if Quebec with all of its demographic might had been advocating for it. Instead, the separatists just aimed to antagonize the ROC and exacerbated Francophobia, rather than fighting against it. It's the federalists who believed in a bilingual Canada, like Trudeau, who did the most good on this front, not the separatists who only cared about the province of Quebec getting independence rather than promoting the interests of French Canadians more broadly. Once again, i'm not saying there weren't spin off benefits to the separatist movement, but that I think there would have been more gains had history gone differently.
Just for fun and to be the devil's advocate, prior to the 1950s EVERYONE in Quebec was a federalist, and francophones outside Quebec (and in Quebec to some degree even) still got crapped on. It did not really help francophones to have the entire political class of Quebec of federalist allegeance and (somewhat) more interested in their fate.
What I think helped francophones outside Quebec was the push and pull between federalists and separatists, and the fact that the federal government and some of the anglo provinces started paying attention to francophone minorities in order to prove the separatists wrong (or at least not prove them right).
Mostly the Anglophone community doesnt really care anymore, were bilingual and living in a French milieu, if we wanted to live entirely in English we'd just move to the ROC just as a Francophone wanting to live entirely in French will just move to Quebec...
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I couldnt resist, i added to their comment section, (Retired in Mtl.) Much as i am pro Anglophone culture these guys are really out there in their aspirations to bring down Bill101 and the OLF. their responses are the stuff of dreams.
It will be interesting to follow their progress.
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