I have repeatedly stressed the obsolescence of the term "French Canadian" identity that was good practice in colonial times (mostly during conscription) where we appealed to the patriotism of the "second founding people" (actually, founder and vanquished him in spite of a country whose main business is its assimilation, see the Durham subject) and identify the "hero" of the heroic resistance of Quebec against General Arnold, the very innocent Dollard-des-Ormeaux, handy Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.
brother soon softened American enemy, the Canadian colony hardly knows what to do with his French-speaking populations and works to deny them the use of this language (except Quebec), so the French had virtually disappeared Saskatchewan and most of Manitoba, while falling so severe and inescapable in Ontario. Canada has indeed established a formal policy of linguistic assimilation, language targeting French and Francophone history. Do not let the current arrangements, particularly the facade of bilingualism, hide our history, or even try to rewrite it for ideological reasons.
policy of multiculturalism Trudeau in 1971, continued to undermine the work by establishing the "French Canadian" in its minority position-as-others and laying the myth of the "founding people" to oblivion pretext of political correctness and friendship Amerindian (another minority disposable, as we saw recently with the Canadian delegation to the UN). Since the first
referendum in 1980 Francophones outside Quebec take the role of hostages language, that Brand (A large reinforcements culture Acadian / Franco-funded Regional and disproportionate air time on Radio-Canada) to create doubt and guilt among the "heartless evil separatists" who dare to abandon their brothers language a certain assimilation (!). Evidence that Canada takes its role as the gravedigger of French America.
must reject this identity by understanding that the charade has gone on long enough, not only French-speaking communities elsewhere in Canada and America have had divergent histories and distinct from ours, being more distant cousins than brothers sharing the same birthplace, but moreover, it is almost certain they would benefit all a strong French state America, exporting its culture and French language funding initiatives across the continent. Otherwise, we melt into accepting the cultural aggregate national (Canadian) as a linguistic minority simple and as socio-cultural group who immigrated to Canada (the policy because "we are all immigrants", etc..) we turn our backs on our own history and our identity.
official Canadian bilingualism exists to protect the anglophone minority in Quebec and in opposition with the constitutional bomb in our little political ammunition. Moreover, according to the federal Liberals' election promises, the notwithstanding clause could disappear during the next decade. With this sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, the gradual neutralization of 101 blows of their constitutional and legal challenges and the failure of our immigration policies francophone be worth the French in Quebec as soon as the French will more critical mass (critical mass would be about 70%, after which there would be a rapid decline and inevitable)?
comfortable myth of "two founding peoples," it has not existed for a long time. Faced with the wolves, why do we accept always be sheep?
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