Comments | aries_xanatos: Quebec and nationhood.

aries_xanatos

Quebec and nationhood.

Nov 30, 2006 01:08

So Quebec is a "nation within a nation" and therefore has recieved nation status from the government. This applies to all Quebeckers as far as I know. I'm not sure if I'm happy or not about this. Currently ... I'm not. Thoughts? Comments?

I'll write more when less assignments are due.

Comments 5

key_ton November 30 2006, 12:24:17 UTC

I personally feel like it is a huge step in the wrong direction personally.

rikacmo November 30 2006, 14:29:02 UTC

I can't say that makes me especially overjoyed, either, though I haven't heard about it before now. Makes me think a great deal, but can't really write a lot myself at the moment.

-- Rika

knightky November 30 2006, 15:34:43 UTC

So, it's offically set as it's own nation now. Wow, good to see we learned a lot from Meech Lake.
i personally don't see why this would have happened myself. Being a Quebecer myself, I've never felt I was drastically different, especially to the point of needing to seperate myself from other nations in Canada. If we could be seperated as a nation within a nation, then other ethnicities and cultural groups should strike out on their own.

Though, o n a less serious note, does this mean we get excluded from taxes now?

Nation Within a Nation insanemage2001 November 30 2006, 15:56:05 UTC

I personally don't get why everyone is so upset by this,

What Harper did was yank the rug out from under the floor of the seperatists. They were about to put out their own "We are a nation" bit, but Harper both beat them to the punch, and added the line "Within a united canada."
It helps to remember that it was in reference to not the provience of Quebec, but to the Quebecois people, the label is not to make the province it's own little mini-country, but to acknowlege that the people of quebec have a unique cultural identity, that's been around since this country's birth

This won't change lives, this is just denying fuel to the seperatists, and giving a nod to a unique to canada culture within this multi-cultural country of ours

And I hope they very shortly give the same status to the Natives, as they are just as deserving of this kind of nod, if not potentially moreso.

jenlilangel November 30 2006, 17:38:33 UTC

Well if that's how they feel....OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

It all seems stupid to me, but there is nothing lil' ol me can do about it so I put it out of my mind and don't care and that equals less stress and more fun for me! wooo!

p.s. JARED RULES! take that creeper.....you know who you are....