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Originally Posted by Animekitty
If English would be considered as the second official language in Quebec, it would be an insult for me and my nation.
Not to put to big a point on it but France abandoned Quebec to the English after losing the battle of the Plains of Abraham. You only think you're a nation and if left to survive on your own you would lose your culture likely far faster than you feel you have. Be thankful that the English were gracious when they won because usually the loser's culture is forfeit.
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Thanks but I know my history. Even if France abandoned Quebec, we will always stay a French colony. The English signed the Treaty of Paris in 1763 but even if Quebec was officially considered as an English colony, we've never been colonised by them, we don't have the same culture and we don't speak the same language. It is a good reason to consider that we have our own nation and we will always stay an old French colony inside an English country. We share the same first and last names than them and we are members of the Francophonie.
Yes English people were very gracious with them. They allowed us to keep our religion, language and traditions. But the Quebec nation worked very hard to convince the English that we are a nation.
I'm not against the separation of Quebec province and I think that we actually won a lot of power but there are still some people in Quebec and in the other provinces of Canada who still have a hostile mentality about our nations. I think there's an incomprehension in both sides so that's why some English-speaking Canadians still have difficulty to accept Quebec nation and some Quebecers have difficulty to accept to live inside Canada.