Question:
Québec or Canada??????????
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2008-08-28 17:30:22 UTC
Bonjour! Je suis de Costa Rica. I don´t speak French and sorry for asking this in English but I´m doing an investigation about Quebec's situaction in Canada. My question is: would you prefer to be an independent country or you are happy to be a "special" province? (sorry if my English is poor!)
Six réponses:
Engelbert R
2008-08-28 18:36:09 UTC
Lalou gave you a good part of the answer.



The status of Québec in Canada is problematic: We used to say that Canada is made of two solitudes living together.English part of Canada doesn't understand the French part and it is the same for the French about the English.



In Québec, French people are in majority but in Canada we are minority. So some would like we would be independent so we could rule ourself instead of being rules by people who dont understand our needs (English majority)



But I would add one thing: Provinces like British Columbia are much closer to independence than Quebec is. People from that province have much more an American way of seeing things than Canadian. English Canadians are getting more and more difficult to distinguish from American people culturally speaking.



In Quebec we still fight a lot to keep our culture living but inside Canada it is getting harder and harder.
Jules
2008-08-29 05:47:41 UTC
I know not to many people have answered your question and my answer may cause many to react with great animosity...



the province of quebec has nothing to brag about for it is not so very different from the rest of canada... other than the fact that most people living in that province have french as a first language... one has to remember that over 15% of all french-canadians live outside of that province and have kept alive most of what being french-canadian was all about, while many a resident of the quebec province have forgotten what french-canadian means... especially after the "tranquille revolution" of the late 60's early 70's...



they also forget that by "achieving independancy" (if it was to occur), it may mean the end for the french language in all of northern america... there best garanty lies in the fact that the french language is garanteed by the canadian constitution... if they seperated from canada, the rest of the french-canadians living in other provinces would would no longer be protected and, even if they thought they would be able to better protect their language, they forget that they would then be forced to learn english even more that they have to nowadays...



at the same time, the rest of non-french-canadians would no longer feel the need to learn french being that canada would most likely no longer be officially biligual... therefore, they would be on their own...



the same may be correct about the way they defend the "integrity" of standard french... by doing so, they forget that languages such as french, italien, spanish and portuguese all derived from latin and that latin has become an "extinct language"... if they do not accept to let the coloquial language evolve naturally, they will play a great role in the decline of their language... everyone knows (linguists especially) that a language has to evolt and adapt to new realities in order to survive, just like any person/animal/plant has to adapt in order to garanty the survival of the species...



the coloquial language in french-canada is suffocating under the pressure of the purists of standard french... may "joual" (the most commonly used name for coloquial french in canada) live long after the extinction of the standard french language... levelled by the openness of the french-canadians who will not accept to be "brainwashed" by the elitists who believe in the standard and independancy of the province of quebec, independency which is based on old narrow-minded nationalist thought of the 18th century...



may they grow-up once and for all and learn to live in the present time which has so many presents to give to humanity...
Topaze
2008-08-28 17:44:36 UTC
Your english is not poor at all..

To answer now... It is difficult to answer for the whole population but let say 30% are for independance, 50% against, and the oders are hesitants.
lemagnum54
2008-08-28 17:33:58 UTC
Québec and Concordia university for you
twg
2008-08-28 17:49:22 UTC
Pues, tu hablas español verdad? Yo naci en quebec de padres q vienen del libano, y pienso q el quebec no puede sobrevivir sin las otras provincias del canada xq necesita el petroleo de alberta y cositas asi. No puedo decirte mas xq no sé tanta informacion sobre la situacion del quebec, pero pienso q es mejor si hace parte del canada, no sera un pais especial, no es una obligacion separarse, y no tienen bastante razones pa' hacerlo
Maxie
2008-08-28 17:49:31 UTC
bonjour de france.


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