Personally, it always left me a tad uneasy when Quebec nationalists use Scotland and Catalonia (even more so with Scandinavia) as prime examples for their independence aspirations. On the surface there may be similarities but dig deeper and the differences become more and more apparent.
Professor Giuseppe Turi tackles this here at cyberpresse (the online version of Montreal's French language daily La Presse.)
Quebec has it good in Canada. Real good.
It's in French so if you can translate (if you care about Quebec cultural matters enough) it all the richer you shall be.
Nice take on the nationalist, cultural and linguistic question. I have to agree with it.
ReplyDeleteSaying that Quebec has it good in Canada is a subjective statement. How good? Good enough? For who? It is not up to Quebeckers to decide what is good enough, and what could and should be done to make things better.
ReplyDeleteFor reference, many colonialists claimed (and STILL claim) that African and Asian nations had it "good" under the British and French empires.