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@Sovereign Trumps Quebec tweet from yesterday:
@Bush No lie, and you might not appreciate this from me but I don't mind this... I do NOT think he is the friend of Québec mind you. I just don't mind him increasing the antagonism. Anything that can help jump start a separatist movement is ok by me. I do not want Québec to join the USA or any weird alternative projects. I just want my people to have their own sovereign home (as sovereign as any modern state is, even vassals).
Quebecois will regain their home when they take it instead of asking politely.
@Snidely_Whiplash @Bush Ok based.
Quebecois have had Canada in somewhat of a chokehold for years now. Back in the 70s Canada tried to assimilate them, that didn't go so well, so they got their own semi-sovereign territory and Canada agreed to give them infinite welfare and leave them alone.
A running theme is that people who live nearby to French speakers tend to experience bullying.
Same thing happens to the Germans 😆
A running theme is that people who live nearby to French speakers tend to experience bullying.
Same thing happens to the Germans 😆
@cjd @Snidely_Whiplash @Bush
The Québecois were historically subordinated within much of Canada's political and economic order → the Quiet Revolution created a modern Quebec state and a much more assertive Quebec nationalism → Quebec increasingly exercised provincial powers and negotiated opt-outs from federal programs → Ottawa simultaneously adopted bilingualism and other accommodations in an attempt to keep Quebec within Canada (something they should have done from the very beginning of the founding of Canada to be fair).
And there is another irony in his “chokehold” description. From a sovereigntist Quebec perspective, the complaint has often been almost the reverse: Quebec sends taxation authority to Ottawa and then has to bargain to get money and jurisdiction back from Ottawa with conditions attached. Federalists and sovereigntists disagree radically about the implications, but neither serious interpretation really resembles “Canada gives Quebec infinite welfare.”
The Québecois were historically subordinated within much of Canada's political and economic order → the Quiet Revolution created a modern Quebec state and a much more assertive Quebec nationalism → Quebec increasingly exercised provincial powers and negotiated opt-outs from federal programs → Ottawa simultaneously adopted bilingualism and other accommodations in an attempt to keep Quebec within Canada (something they should have done from the very beginning of the founding of Canada to be fair).
And there is another irony in his “chokehold” description. From a sovereigntist Quebec perspective, the complaint has often been almost the reverse: Quebec sends taxation authority to Ottawa and then has to bargain to get money and jurisdiction back from Ottawa with conditions attached. Federalists and sovereigntists disagree radically about the implications, but neither serious interpretation really resembles “Canada gives Quebec infinite welfare.”
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@Sovereign @cjd @Snidely_Whiplash @Bush
but neither serious interpretation really resembles “Canada gives Quebec infinite welfare.”
Yeah. But that sure gets repeated a lot.